WAYS OF IMAGE’S RECEPTION OF L. VAN BEETHOVEN IN THE CULTURAL SPACE IN THE END OF XX AND BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURIES (TO THE QUESTION OF THE METHODOLOGY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH)

Abstract

The article deals with biopics dedicated to the life and work of L. van Beethoven (“Immortal Beloved”, “Copying Beethoven”, “Lezione 21”, etc.), and the rock opera “Beethoven’s Last Night” from the point of view of their correlation with typological models “novel about an artist” / “drama about an artist”. In the context of modern humanities, the relevance of the work is related to the testing of literary methodology on synthetic forms of cinema and theater. The works under consideration are inscribed into the context of the literary tradition and analyzed from the perspective of the elements of those genre models that, having formed back in the 19th century, determined the essentially significant trends in the subsequent development of dramatic and verbal art in general, manifested in the 20th – early 21st centuries. The article concludes that the ways of reception of the image of a genius in contemporary art are largely determined by the romantic tradition and implement the “anthropological” and “cathartic” models, the form of reception-discussion and the genre model of the “novel of creation”.