HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

MODERN GENRE OF ESSAYS AS A SYSTEM

2020. №1, pp. 100-107

Uchakina Valentina M. - Dostoevsky Omsk State University, gravity-07@mail.ru

This article is devoted to essay as a literary genre, and is aimed at understanding the fundamental features and the framework of this genre in order to distinguish essay from other genres. The urgency of the problem we raise consists in the need to compile a list of the characteristic features of the genre, which would make it possible to determine whether this or that text belongs to the essay genre, the interest in which remains huge today. The article uses comparative - typological and cultural - historical methods, with the help of which we identified the necessary features and found confirmation of the validity of each of the traits from other researchers - literary scholars and linguists. The novelty of the approach is based on accumulating essay genre features and considering them as a system that forms a genre only when all its components are interconnected. The article identifies and describes ten characteristic features that are principal for the genre of essay, and also explains the nature of their interrelation. The list of characteristic features that we have presented can be used to analyze texts for their belonging to the essay genre.

Key words: эссе, эссеистика, жанр, признак, черта, форма, текст, интертекстуальность, искусство, диалог, essay, genre, art, genre, attribute, feature, form, text, intertextuality, art, dialogue

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