SOURCES OF ‘VITALISM’ IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE
OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIXTH CENTURY Cover Image

ИСТОЧНИКИ ВИТАЛИЗМА В РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ XIX ВЕКА
SOURCES OF ‘VITALISM’ IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIXTH CENTURY

Author(s): Andrey Evgenievich Kunil’skiy
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century; theme of life; vitalism; ‘vital life’

Summary/Abstract: The main sources and the meaning of the literary phenomenon “vitalis”, which implies a special role of the theme of life in the worksof Russian writers, are discussed in the article. In this context, the paper analyses connections of the Russian literature of the beginningof the 19th century with German culture and its Biblical traditions.