Scientific and theoretical foundations of the epistolary genre
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія» - Year 2017, Vol 28, Issue
Abstract
In the paper the key aspects of epistolary genre are explained, its genre peculiarities, features and essential markers are defined. The scientific theories of a letter are analyzed, and typological categories of genre-forms in epistolary are singled out. In increasing frequency, epistolary genre become an object of research in contemporary study of literature, and realization the significance of writers’ epistolary heritage stimulated an activation of promulgation and translation of both separate letters and total massive of them. In the article in shorten way the history of epistolary development from Antiquity to nowadays is presented, the genre transformations of a letter, that were noticed in XX century, are determined. Also, an evolution in scientific approaches to epistolary – from understanding it as accessory materials in analysis of writer’s creative works to study it as separate genre, which shows the whole spectrum of literary changes – is outlined.
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І. В. Погребняк
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