Semantics of female images in prose about the Great Patriotic war

The article examines the semantic uniqueness of female images in the novel by Aleksandr Fadeev "Young Guard", short novels by Boris Vasiliev "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", Elena Ilyina "The Fourth Height", and Boris Polevoy "Doctor Vera". The analysis of the poetics of the works reveals the features of the authors’ interpretation of documentary facts and historical events of the Great Patriotic War. The basis of literary research is a creative history, understanding of the heroic and tragic in the context of psychological analysis of the characters of the heroines in their typology. The scientific novelty of the article’s topic is related to the study of the feminine principle of heroism of the feat and the role of military literature in the civil and patriotic education of contemporaries. The novelty of the research aspect is determined by today's reading of Russian military classics about the Great Patriotic War, its task of patriotic and civic education of contemporaries. An analytical review of literary criticism shows that in the history of Russian literature of the 20th century there are periods of obvious decline in reader interest in works that carry the truth about the war. Works from the 1940s and 1950s, which laid the foundation for the traditions of true patriotism and love for the Motherland, were often left outside the list of recommended literature for reading. The theoretical aspect of the study is related to the principle of documentary as the main thing in the poetics of works based on war events. The realities of the fact become text-forming in the figurative structure, composition, and semantic nature of the feat. The features of the poetics of the studied artistic texts are determined by the originality of the primary material, when the fact is creatively rethought by the writer. The author's view of the life of the heroines in the location of the war archetypically reveals the natural meanings of female existence, gender motivation of the heroic feat. In the figurative system of works, women's destinies are intertwined, forming a holistic and impressive portrait of a generation, an organic part of which were girls who showed the ability to endure any trials and preserve humanity even in the most cruel times.

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