ON THE QUESTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF HISTORICISM IN LITERATURE

Abstract

Historicism as the most important literary problem makes it possible to explore many topical issues related not only to the evolution of genres in national literature, the formation of a new hero in a certain historical period, but also to the formation and development of creativity of an individual writer, with the artistic solution of the concept of “man and history” in his works. The desire of writers to find out the historical past of their people was the impetus for the appearance of works on a historical theme. Representatives of North Caucasian literatures focused on the experience of Russian writers and poets, whose works were aimed at studying the harmonious connection of times, at understanding the past of Russia and its best representatives. Later, the writers turn to this topic again. Their goal was to awaken patriotic feelings in the masses, to reveal the continuity of the feat of arms, to cause heroic impulses necessary for victory over the enemy among the people. A new understanding of boundaries of the works themselves on a historical theme contributes to the transfer of complex contradictory features of the era, understanding and acceptance of social, moral and psychological moments.