Fedoseyeyva O. Poetics of functional space in Fielding's novels

The subject of the investigation is Fielding's novels "Tom Jones", "Joseph Andrews" and "Amelia". The purpose of the dissertation is the analysis of fictional space in Fielding's novels. The research methodology is based on using comparative-historical, sociocultural methods, combining with historico-literaturic and comparative stylistic methods. The implementation of this work is the course of foreign literature of XVIII century and special courses of studying English novel's poetics and Fielding novels. The problem of fictional space is investigated in Fielding's novels "Tom Jones", " Joseph Andrews" and "Amelia", the analysis of its evolution allows to determine the traditional and innovative forms and models its fictional realization. It makes topical new reading of classical works from "topographical" point of view. Fielding believed that his novel works of "new style of prose", he tried to synthesize and transform "romance". Also he tried to reveal new perspectives of different way of renewal form of novel -The spatial analysis allowed to develop a hypothesis of rocal genre-stylish nature of two novels. H.Fielding clarified the parameters of sentimental space of novel "Amelia". The space of characters is combined the privacy, intimacy and interior. While the picture is difficult and variegated of the Enlightenment Age development of the literary directions in process of the studying general sentimental - rocal paradigm of culture is appeared. The Fielding's works demonstrate the dynamics its paradigm and embodiment the fictional evolution of the spatial poetics which is one of the aesthetically important variants of genre - stylish interference of rococo and sentimentalism.