Volik N. Dynamics of Genres of Elegy and Solemn Ode in the Russian Literature of the 18th Century: the Aspect of Rhetorical Discourse.

The present dissertation concerns with research of the peculiarities of formation and development of lyrical genres of elegy and solemn ode in the Russian literature of the 18th century in the aspect of rhetorical discourse on the material of poetic and theoretical works of F. Prokopovich, V. Trediakovsky, A. Sumarokov, M. Lomonosov, N. Karamzin, G. Derzhavin. The methodology of the proposed study bases on a comprehensive approach, which includes comparative-historical, historical-literary, cultural-historical, hermeneutic, structural-semiotic, and also contains a rhetorical-reflexive (M. Makeeva) and discourse analyses. In this paper presents an analytical review of rhetorical training manuals and poetics of the 18th century and substantiates the leading role of rhetoric as a formative and substantive basis in the dynamics of lyrical genres. The rhetoric is considering as a way of thinking that organizes and summarizes the reality (S. Averintsev, M. Gasparov, O. Mikhailov) and as the embodiment of the communicative aspect of artistic creativity, which determines the features of its creation, the reader's perception and subsequent reflection (M. Makeeva, M. Shulzhenko, L. Assuirova). Rhetorical discourse in the rhetorical type of culture is characterized mainly by communicative direction and public orientation of literary genres and is realized with the help of certain rhetorical techniques, strategies (V. Tyupa, Y. Lotman, M. Bakhtin, V. Feldman).