Open AccessFEATURES OF AGE CATEGORY OF THE BEGINNING OF 20th CENTURY
Author(s) -
Svitlana Stezhko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
lìteraturnij proces: metodologìâ, ìmena, tendencìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2475
pISSN - 2311-2433
DOI - 10.28925/2412-2475.2019.138
Subject(s) - ideology , plot (graphics) , narrative , literature , history , ballad , pathos , folklore , proletariat , general strike , social order , aesthetics , sociology , law , art , poetry , political science , politics , statistics , mathematics
The article analyses propaganda plays which create a broad basis for further consolidationin the mass consciousness of ideological concepts , mythologues, and behavioral stereotypes, whollycorresponding to the so-called social order of power and society. One of the most powerful ideologicalplots and cliches in plays-agitation is the conceptial plot contrasting «past — future» («old world / order/ custom — a new world / order / custom»). The plot lines of the propaganda play, in fact, «appropriate»folklore subjects and fragments of the national historical narrative and rewrite them in accordancewith the class-social ideology of the era. Theatricalization of history, as well as theatricalization of life,is carried out using ideological cliches, but based on historical stories. In the vast majority of cases, it isnot about the use of plot conflicts from the biographies of historical figures, but on the contrary — aboutthe rebirth of the plot schemes of folk historical songs, ballads, legends, and translations. The plot linesof the propaganda plays “take credit” for folk stories and fragments of the national historical narrative and transcribe it according to the class-social ideological settings of the era. This makes it possibleto create a common historical memory. Due to this memory the national heroic pathos of the Ukrainianpast is replaced by the images and metaphors of the class struggle of the proletariat and the peasantry.This image is wholly opposite to the national-patriotic, partly the existential-philosophical conceptionof the past, created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the dramatic works of Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, Spyrydon Cherkasenko, Hnat Hotkevych, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Bohdan Lepky, IvanNechui-Levytskyi and other Ukrainian writers. National pride motive is replaced by the idea of “Sovietpatriotism”, in order for “Ukrainians could celebrate their past, as long as it complemented, but did notcombat with Russian imperial history” as S. Yekelchik notes.