Ustinova T. E.M. Forster's novels: a problem of art movement.

The objects are novels by E.M. Forster. The aim is to determine the correlation of Forster's creation with main artistic directions of his time. The methods are literary and linguistic approaches, typological method. This research is devoted to studying a dialectical correlation between the classical structure of the novel, including poetics and semantics, with the new, modernistic model structure, as realized by Forster. The gradual evolution of the novel's essence -"from poetics to semantics," i.e. the changing focus from "how" to "what" - reveals in his novels the new direction of artistic creation featuring elements that would become the hallmarks of modernism. The novels Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View, The Longest Journey, Howards End, and A Passage to India are examined as indicative of Forster's belonging to the new art movement, the main principles in which are the main character's discovered ability to "take down" established norms or experience a psychological break from inherited standards. The modernistic conversion and reimagining of the traditional Victorian novel as actualized by Forster places him at the forefront of 20th century literature as a founding father of English modernism. Application sphere is the training courses.