EPISTOLARY PROSE AS A LITERARY PHENOMENON

Abstract

This article is devoted to the problem of genre evolution and poetics of Kazakh epistolary literature. The phenomenon called epistolary prose was generated by the transformation of writing as a speech genre into a kind of artistic narrative. Works in the form letters of provide an opportunity to fully realize the illusion, which is fundamentally important for literature as an art form, – to present a fictional statement as authentic. This specificity of epistolary literature should have guaranteed philologists' close attention to it. But at this time in literary studies there are many gaps in its study. For example, such a criterion as the scope of the meaning of the key concept of «epistolary prose». This concept often includes all works whose text is designed letters (a letter) of a character, regardless of whether a) the correspondence presented in it is fictional or the basis of the text of the work was real letters; b) whether the hero implements a communicative task in the messages (epistolaries) or other intentions dominate. To solve these problems, a real study was undertaken, the subject of which was the peculiarities of genre evolution and poetics of Kazakh epistolary prose. The study assumes a fairly wide range of practical application of the results obtained: in university and school teaching of Kazakh literature, reading theoretical courses – theory of literature and poetics, in special courses and seminars, when developing new directions in the study of modern prose.