THE CATEGORY OF ARTISTIC TIME CONTINUUM AND HISTORICAL TIME IN ALTERNATE-HISTORY WRITINGS

Authors

  • Olha Polishchuk Чорноморський національний університет імені Петра Могили, кафедра української філології, теорії та історії літератури

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2018(1).1.816

Keywords:

historical time, artistic time, retro alternative, prognostic, alternative

Abstract

The goal of the present paper is to study the category of time in alternate-history pieces of literature. General scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, systematization and generalization of material were used during the study. This gave an opportunity to carry out the processing of literary and critic sources which were involved in complex analysis. During the analysis of contemporary alternate-history pieces of literature we can observe the existence of two time continuums: artistic time (created by the author and is subjective, existential) and historical time (the time of historical process of humanity; this time tries to obtain features of objectivity). Depending on what time dimension is created precisely by the writer in the piece of literature, we differentiate three types of time in alternate-history literature: retro alternative, true alternative and predicted (or perspectively-alternative). Retro alternative time is an artistic time of the alternate-history piece of literature where possible alternative option of history development of our past is depicted. True alternative time is an artistic time in the boundaries of which events, which have direct relation to nowadays events, are depicted. Predicted time is an artistic time where alternate-history events of the future were simulated in relation to the period of time when probable scenario of history development was created. So, the category of time in alternate-history pieces of literature exists in two versions: historical time and artistic time. Artistic time is divided in three types: retro alternative, true alternative and predicted times. Here the outlook model of division of time on three dimensions (past, present and future) has been used as a classification principle. The category of specificity/abstraction, the category of subjectivity/objectivity and distinctiveness are the features to characterize the artistic time in alternate-history pieces of literature. From our point of view, the thorough research of the chronotope category in alternate-history writings should be considered.

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Author Biography

Olha Polishchuk, Чорноморський національний університет імені Петра Могили, кафедра української філології, теорії та історії літератури

кандидат філологічних наук, старший викладач кафедри

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31.03.2018

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Polishchuk, O. (2018). THE CATEGORY OF ARTISTIC TIME CONTINUUM AND HISTORICAL TIME IN ALTERNATE-HISTORY WRITINGS. Synopsis: Text, Context, Media, (1(21), 8–16. https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2018(1).1.816

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No. 1(21) (2018)

Section

Theoretical horizons of Literary Studies

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