ONTOLOGY OF RUSSIAN СHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN THE XX CENTURY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE THEORY FUSION OF HORIZONS OF H.G. GADAMER

Abstract

Being a thriving branch of Russian literature, children’s literature is an important means of educating ethical values, philosophical thinking and building a community of destiny in children. As an object of cognition and experience that exists specifically for children, children’s literature has a special ontology that covers many factors, such as value orientation and aesthetic interest. The study of ontology has a practical importance for a comprehensive interpretation of the connotation of children’s literature. This ontology is mainly reflected in the process of participation of children’s literature in the formation of paradigms of observation, thinking and behavior of children, as well as in the merging of the horizons of the author, the work and the reader, specifically manifested in three aspects: practical, linguistic and historical characteristics. The article begins from the standpoint of ethics, philosophy and aesthetics, explores the ontology of children’s literature of the 20th century, based on the theory fusion of horizons of the German philosopher H.G. Gadamer, in order to build a new paradigm in the study of children’s literature.