PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS A CODING FACTOR OF A LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article deals with such topical problem as the transfer of scientific knowledge to the aesthetic sphere. The novelty and relevance of the article is due to the fact that it contains a poetic analysis of the novel “Flowers for Algernon” by a modern American writer D. Keyes in the perspective of the cording factor as a principle for organizing an artistic text. The authors turn to the timely task of researching D. Keyes’s work with a view to the broader understanding some sing and semiosis problems of non-classical literary text. As a result of the meticulous analysis, the authors show a new poetic significance of the writer’s cognitive interpreting modern reality which became an essential element of organizing the text of the novel “Flowers for Algernon”. The principles of incorporating psychological knowledge into the construal of text meaning were determined. The accumulated evidence allow to justify the inclusion of the novel in the general art process of developing adequate poetic tools aimed at reflecting the changed ideas about the modern world.