VISUAL SYMBOLS IN ROMANIAN EPIC WORKS. PART 1. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PLOT

Abstract

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of visual images, symbols and patterns found in the plot of a fairy tale, as symbolic descriptors of a centralizer as an element of the axiosphere, represented in cultural and social systems. It is determined that the empirical material, in the subject field of the sociology of art, allows us to consider visual images, symbols and patterns displayed in the plot of a fairy tale, for the presence of not only a symbolic component of the collective unconscious, but also repetitive patterns of value-significant (idealized or devalued) social behavior. It is stated that the patterns of value-significant (idealized or devalued) social behavior are epiphenomena of the cultural and social system, expressed in visual images and symbols. It is noted that these patterns can be assimilated in the processes of inculturation and socialization of recipients of different ages, as well as relate to issues related to the reproduction and preservation of social systems, through the information transmission of the centralizer – the image of the Absolute and the hierarchy of axiospheres associated with it, which include, including , and art. The attention is focused on the fact that this image of the Absolute, presented in religion and recursed in the value components of philosophy, ideology, morality, law and art, contains information that has the status of a regulatory for the activity of the social system, since it involves an inculturating and socializing impact on the recipients of various social (age) groups. The transmission of such information through the text of an epic work and the visual images, symbols and patterns contained in it that occur in the plot makes it possible to represent in the form of symbols the key elements of the social system reflected in fairy tales, legends and myths as products of culture.