Literary-Functional Characteristics Of Chronotope

Abstract

In the article, the chronotope is analyzed as an artistic-aesthetic tool that organizes the work’s structure, plot and composition, and forms the epic text space, expressing social ideals and the writer's worldview, ideological-artistic intention. In world literature, chronotope is interpreted as a literary-aesthetic category that represents the sequence and intensity of the events of the work, describes the images, and reflects the creator's vision of the world structure. The use of non-traditional forms of chronotope in works belonging to the current literary process calls for a deeper understanding and study of the essence of this phenomenon. Seven forms of chronotope, i.e., surreal, social, national, folkloric, fantastic, dream, memory chronotope, play an essential role in the chronotope structure of the work in organizing the plot, creating characters, and performing the tasks of storytelling. The term chronotope summarizes the concepts of time and space. Artistic time as the primary form of eternal-aesthetic existence is related to the form of creative space of this existence. After all, "everything in this world – time, space is a chronotope". The chronotope system is a generalized literary-aesthetic "model" of traditional universal poetics. The image of the creative space provides the essence of the events and their logical sequence. It is created based on the objective and subjective approach of the writer.