The dominant concept of B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s story “Smert”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31812/filstd.v22i.8122Keywords:
concept, conceptualization, conceptosphere, death, concept of “death”, thanatological problemAbstract
The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the realization of the concept of “death” in the story “Smert” by B. Antonenko-Davydovych. The creation of each writer can be considered as a representative part of his fragmentary experience, an individual-authorial consciousness, a reflection of contemporary reality, a picture of the artist’s world etc. In particular, the creation of B. Antonenko-Davydovych can be considered as a set of concepts. The concepts are generated by the cognitive activity of the world and consist of the unity of language and culture, the influence of society and traditions etc. and form integrity - the conceptosphere. Thanatological problem takes one of the leading places in scientific thought. It is considered as an existential phenomenon in the philosophy of irrationalism, a search for the meaning of life, a discovery of new horizons, a philosophical and atheistic attitudes, a denial of eternity, a protest against the world, a socio-cultural phenomenon etc. The concept of “death” can reveal itself as a state of uncertainty, feelings of disgust and despair, a psychological instability, an alienation and rejection by society, loss own life goals, changes in beliefs, expectations inconsistencies with reality, a cognitive dissonance, an apathy, a murder and cruelty etc. irrationalism, a search for the meaning of life, a discovery of new horizons, a philosophical and atheistic attitudes, a denial of eternity, a protest against the world, a socio-cultural phenomenon etc. The concept of “death” can reveal itself as a state of uncertainty, feelings of disgust and despair, a psychological instability, an alienation and rejection by society, loss own life goals, changes in beliefs, expectations inconsistencies with reality, a cognitive dissonance, an apathy, a murder and cruelty etc.
Downloads
References
Antonenko-Davydovych B. D. (1999). Tvory v 2 t. T. 1 [Works in 2 Books. Book 1]: Povisti ta romany / Vstup. st., uporiadkuv. ta prym. L. S. Boika. Kyiv: Nauk. dumka. 744 s. [in Ukrainian]
Antonenko-Davydovych B. D. (1999). Tvory v 2 t. T. 2 [Works: in 2 Books. Book 2]: Sybirski novely. Opovidannia. Publitsystyka. Spohady. Lystuvannia / uporiadkuv. ta prym. L. S. Boika. Kyiv: Nauk. dumka. 656 s. [in Ukrainian]
Ar’es F. (1992). Chelovek pered licom smerti [The Man in the Face of Death] / per. s fr.; obshch. red. Obolenskoj S. V.; predisl. Gurevicha A. Ya. Moskva: Izdatel’skaya gruppa «Progress» — «Progress — Akademiya». 528 s. [in Russian]
Berdyaev N. A. (1931). O naznachenii cheloveka [On the Appointment of a Person]. Parizh: Sovremennye zapiski. 320 s. [in Russian]
Boiko L. (2004). Z kohorty oderzhymykh: Zhyttia i tvorchist Borysa Antonenka-Davydovycha v lit. protsesi XX st. [From the Cohort of Obsessives: The Life and Creation of Borys Antonenko-Davydovych in the Literary Process of the Twentieth Century]. Kyiv: Vyd. dim «Kyievo-Mohylianska akademiia». 584 s. [in Ukrainian]
Hobbs T. (2000). Leviafan [Leviathan]. Per. z anhl. Kyiv: Dukh i Litera. 606 s. [in Ukrainian]
Homilko O. (2001). Metafizyka tilesnosti. Doslidzhennia, rozdumy, ekskursy [Metaphysics of Corporeality. Research, Reflections, Excursions]. Kyiv: Nauk. dumka. 300 s. [in Ukrainian]
Dmytrenko V. I. (2014). Onirychnyi prostir povisti «Smert» B. Antonenka-Davydovycha [Operatical Discourse of the Novel «Death» by B. Antonenko-Davydovych]. Naukovyi visnyk Mykolaivskoho derzhavnoho universytetu imeni V. O. Sukhomlynskoho. Ser.: Filolohichni nauky. Vyp. 4.13. S. 76–82. [in Ukrainian]
Dmytrenko V. I. (2011). Typolohichni aspekty tvorchosti B. Antonenka-Davydovycha y H. Hesse [Typological Aspects of B. Antonenko-Davydovych and G. Hesse Creation]. Suchasni problemy movoznavstva ta literaturoznavstva. Vyp. 16. S. 92–95. [in Ukrainian]
Entsyklopediia Ukrainoznavstva: u 10 t. (1993). [Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies] / red. V. Kubiiovych. Lviv: NTSH, 1993. T. 1. 400 s. [in Ukrainian]
Zhornokui U. V. (2014). Bahatovektornist kontseptu smerti u romani «Kradiika knyzhok» Markusa Zusaka [Diversity of the Concept of Death in «The Book Thief» by Marcus Zusak]. Molodyi vchenyi. № 11 (14). S. 133–135. [in Ukrainian]
Zabolotska O. O. (2018). Verbalizatory kontseptu smert u tvorakh anhlomovnykh pysmennykiv [Verbalizers of the Concept of Death in the Works of English Writers]. Naukovi zapysky. Seriia: Filolohichni nauky. Kropyvnytskyi. Vyp. 164. S. 59–65. [in Ukrainian]
Zuienko M. O. (2020). Mifopoetychni paradyhmy v anhliiskii barokovii literaturi (systemno-funktsionalnyi ta poetykalnyi aspekty) [The Mythopoeic Paradigms of the English Baroque Literature (Systemic Functional and Poetic Aspects)]: dys. . . . d-ra. filol. nauk: 10.01.04. Poltava. 431 S. [in Ukrainian]
Kozachynska V. V. (2002). Kontsept smerti v ukrainskomu baroko [The Concept of Death in the Ukrainian Baroque]. Magisterium. Istoryko-filosofski studii. Vyp. 9. S. 16–21. [in Ukrainian]
Kozachynska V. V. (2007). Smert: ideolohichni kody sohodennia [The Death: Present ideological codes]. Naukovi zapysky NaUKMA: Filosofiia ta relihiieznavstvo. Kyiv: Vydavnychyi dim «KM Akademiia». T. 63. S. 15–21. [in Ukrainian]
Mazuryk M. V. (2013). Smert yak vidkryttia novykh horyzontiv bachennia dlia liudyny [The Death as an Opening of the New Horizon’s looking for the Human Being]. Visnyk Natsionalnoho universytetu «Lvivska politekhnika». Filosofski nauky. № 750. S. 52–58. [in Ukrainian]
Nestelieiev M. A. (2014). Avtodestruktyvne pohranychchia u tvorakh Borysa Antonenka-Davydovycha [Self-destructive Frontier in the Works by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych]. Visnyk Lvivskoho universytetu. Seriia filolohichna. Vyp. 60 (2). S. 262–266. [in Ukrainian]
Povtoreva S. (2010). Smert yak metodolohichnyi konstrukt postmodernistskoi filosofii i khudozhnoi literatury [Death as a Methodological Construct of Postmodern Philosophy and Fiction]. ∆óξα / Doksa. Vyp. 15. S. 473–482. [in Ukrainian]
Ptashnyk L. A. (2006). Typovist obrazu holovnoho heroia u tvorchosti B. Antonenka-Davydovycha [Typical Image of the Main Character in the Creation of B. Antonenko-Davydovych]. Visnyk Luhanskoho natsionalnoho universytetu imeni Tarasa Shevchenka. Filolohichni nauky. № 15 (110). S. 114–123. [in Ukrainian]
Smaznova I. S. (2019). Ahresiia i tolerantnist: filosofsko-pravovyi dyskurs [Aggression and tolerance: philosophical and legal discourse]: monohrafiia. Odesa: Feniks. 378 s. [in Ukrainian]
Suvorova L. K. (2017). Kontsept smerti v malii prozi rannoho ukrainskoho modernizmu: arkhetypno-mifolohichna i filosofska interpretatsiia [The Concept of Death in the Short Prose of Early Ukrainian Modernism: Archetypal-mythological and Philosophical Interpretation]. avtoref. dys. . . . kand. filol. nauk: 10.01.01. Kyiv. 20 s. [in Ukrainian]
Fedoriuk L. V. (2019). Spetsyfika ukrainskoi kontseptosfery: linhvokulturolohiinyi vymir (na prykladi kontseptu smert) [Specifics of Ukrainian Conceptosphere: Linguistic and Cultural Dimension (on the Example of the Concept of Death)]: monohrafiia. Vinnytsia. 185 s. [in Ukrainian]
Khamedova O. A. (2009). Feci, quod potui. . . Dolia i tvorchist Borysa Antonenka-Davydovycha [Feci, Quod Potui. . . The Fate and the Creation of Borys Antonenko-Davydovych]: monohrafiia. Donetsk: Nord-Pres. 164 s. [in Ukrainian]
Chipak U. V. (2011). Typolohizatsiia ta alternatyvy osmyslennia katehorii tanatosu [Typology and Alternatives for Understanding the Category of Thanatos]. Komparatyvni doslidzhennia slovianskykh mov i literatur. Kyiv. Vyp. 15. s. 445–452. [in Ukrainian]
