Медицинский текст в фельетонной критике конца XIX — начала XX в.
Medical Text in Feuilleton Criticism of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the poetics of the critical literary text. The subject of analysis in the article is feuilleton criticism — one of the leading trends in literary criticism of the early 20th century; the focus of the study is the articles by the leading feuilleton critics of the time. A. A. Izmailov and K. I. Chukovsky. The article analyzes the reasons why medical discourse becomes part of literary criticism. The rapid changes that were taking place in literature at the turn of the 20th century are considered: the emergence of new trends in literature, language experiments, the search for new artistic forms, techniques in literary poetics, and many other processes associated with the modernization of the literary field. The role of fiction in these processes is traced: in many respects it became a source of augmentation of the literary criticism language, a trigger that has launched the mechanism of saturating the language of reviews and feuilletons with medical terminology, which has made medical discourse part of the analysis of modern literature. A number of examples demonstrate the use of medical terminology in literary criticism. Comic techniques, in which medical terminology plays a key role, are considered. Specific examples of reviews and feuilletons that incorporate a sharply sarcastic attitude of critics to frank manifestations of naturalism, are outlined. The author also reveals an evolution of the views of feuilleton authors on medical discourse, as a result of which a serious dialogue between medicine and literature became possible, and medical discourse became part of the poetics of reviews and responses to works of art

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