Open AccessRepresentation of the concept of Love in Marina Tsvetaeva's epistolary and in the works of Russian philosophers
Author(s) -
E. V. Minaieva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vìsnik lugansʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì tarasa ševčenka. fìlologìčnì nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-2844
DOI - 10.12958/2227-2844-2021-7(345)-40-51
Subject(s) - soul , connotation , philosophy , representation (politics) , nothing , literature , art , linguistics , epistemology , political science , politics , law
The article highlights and examines several important gender characteristics of the concept of „love” based on the material of Marina Tsvetaeva's epistolary texts, namely: immensity, spontaneity, conflict of body and soul, pain, maternal care. The activity characteristic of the immensity in the letters of M. Tsvetaeva testifies to the high degree of the author's entry into the spiritual sphere. The gender characteristic of the immensity in Tsvetaeva's texts correspond to the features of female love described by the philosopher N. Berdyaev. The characteristic of spontaneity is manifested in the fact that Tsvetaeva perceives love as an element, an independent force that a person is not able to control. The gender characteristic of the conflict of soul and body was highlighted on the basis that Tsvetaeva was often in a state of internal conflict, soul and body came into confrontation. The gender characteristic of the conflict of soul and body is also based on the fact that Marina Tsvetaeva reproached men that they are largely interested not in the soul of a woman, but her body. The gender characteristic of pain is manifested in the fact that, despite the fact that the words „pain”, „suffering” usually has a negative connotation, a woman has a unique ability to penetrate through them into the very depths of the phenomena of the inner and surrounding worlds, as both Marina Tsvetaeva and Russian philosophers write about. Pain and suffering, therefore, take an active part in shaping a woman's worldview. The gender characteristic of maternal care is highlighted as active in Marina Tsvetaeva's epistolary, and the connection between the female picture of the world and this sign of the concept of Love was also recorded by Russian philosophers. The study showed that the conceptual analysis of literary texts makes it possible to reconstruct and correlate the metagender and gender characteristics of cultural constants, taking into account the idiosyncratic features of a particular author. The inclusion of the gender parameter in the linguistic consideration of concepts allows us to significantly expand the idea of language as a means of constructing a picture of the world, including an artistic one.