Babik M. The image of a hero-aesthete in Russian Literature of XIX-XX centuries (genesis and typology

In the thesis due to the study of modification of a figurative model of a hero-aesthete in Russian Literature of XIX-XX centuries the sign texts are being determined and characterized, in which this complicated hero has been presented most completely and consistently. Different stages and approaches of theoretical, scientific, stylistic and in fact literary comprehension of a hero-aesthete, that has been realized most often in two main types - a creative personality and a dandy are being analyzed. At first the literary process has been investigated through the conception of the certain literary hero. In the thesis the evolution of image of a hero-aesthete has been followed from the mock realization in the literature of XVIII century ("a fop") - to the classical dandy of XIX century with the refinement of personification of aesthetically conscious personality, from a poet-aesthete, an artist, "a demiurge" of the verge of XIX-XX centuries - to the post-modern model that has not had its own exact definition yet.