GENRE AND STYLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARI “MILITARY” STORY
IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1940S – THE BEGINNING OF THE 1980S
(AXIOLOGY AND POETICS)

Nadezhda Guseva¹, Raisia Kudryavtseva², Tatiana Belyaeva³*, Albina Myshkina⁴

¹Ph.D. candidate, Mari State University, RUSSIA, ovechkinanadezhda@rambler.ru
²Prof. Dr., Mari State University, RUSSIA, kudsebs@rambler.ru
³Assoc. Prof. Dr., Mari State University, RUSSIA, sokolova_beljaeva@mail.ru
⁴Prof. Dr., I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University, RUSSIA, alb-myshkina@mail.ru
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

In the Mari post-war story about the Great Patriotic War spiritual and moral problems are advanced to the forefront: man and the dramatic circumstances of war, the problems of person’s spiritual strength. Such a conceptual and problematic strategy lead to deepening of the story’s genre content, first of all, in the axiological aspect; the principle of the truth in the representation of military reality and the person of wartime make actual from a new angle and also, in turn, it provokes the development of genre forms, poetics and style, which are best-qualified to the purposes of art expression of the author’s value orientations.

In this article, within the framework of study of the value paradigm of the Mari national literature, it is regarded the art realization of axiological problematique in the Mari «military» story of the second half of the 1940s – the beginning of the 1980s. The main attention in it is paid to the genre and style decisions of the authors (the genre subspecies of the «military» story, as well as the style dominants, in particular, psychologism, its forms and techniques, used by writers), which are aimed at actualization of the axiological content of their works.

The research methodology is determined by the historical and typological and structural-semantic analysis of these works, what makes it possible to see not only the value aspects of the problematique of the «military» story, but also the poetological aspects of a genre, realized by them.

The socio-aesthetic factors of the actualization of axiological problematique in the Mari literature of the second half of the 1940s – the beginning of the 1980s are defined in this article and also it is proved that this problematique call into existence new genre-style tendencies in the development of the Mari story about the Great Patriotic War. It is associated with the understanding of the tragic circumstances of military reality, the internal human nature, the psychological side of the characters’ life. The most vivid expression it is received in such genre subspecies of the Mari «military» story as lyrico-dramatic, lyrico-philosophical and documentary and biographic stories, and significantly the problematique promotes to the formation of such style dominants of the Mari small prose, as psychologism, dramatic nature and philosophization of the narration.

The main object of the image in the «military» story of the second half of the 1940s – the beginning of the 1980s is the personality with its complex inner world. The most common techniques of psychological narration in it are the inner monologue of the character and the psychological author’s narrative (psychologically saturated descriptions, details).

The central place in the genre and style field of the Mari «military» literature of the post-war period is taken by lyrico-dramatic and lyrico-philosophical stories, in which the monologue-confession of the character is actively used.

Documentary and biographical stories are written on the basis of the documentary materials, but the authors do not «roll over» to journalism, they actively enrich the art arsenal of literature, in which psychologism plays the most important role. Along with psychologism, it should be noted a plot as a stylistic dominant of such story (the dynamics of the external and interior life of characters), which is slightly reveals the author’s value idea. Many of them have an autobiographical strategy.

Keywords: Mari literature, axiological paradigm of literature, story, problematique, poetics, genre, genre subspecies, style, style dominant, art meaning