Borysova L. The Russian symbolism drama and the symbolistic theory of lifecreation

The dissertation is the first work in the field of literary studies evaluating the Russian symbolism drama from the point of view of symbolists' theory of drama as an art transforming into life and connected with cult. Identification of drama by V.Ivanov, A.Belyi, F.Sologub with "contem-porary mystery" permits the author to draw the conclusion, that action is completely subordinated by acting in experemental fragments and that compromise with tradition takes place in all the other cases. The connection between A.Blok's evolution and general development of symbolism is proved. Peculiar features of the new drama's symbolistic variant are revealed through comparing it with Chekchov's and postsymbolist drama. The functional differences between the play devices in A.Blok's, М.Kuzmin's, А.Remizov's plays are considered.