Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Space of Cultural Values in the Modern Russian Literature

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (6)
Authors
Funtova, Daria A.; Sinetskiy, Sergei B.
Contact information
Funtova, Daria A.: Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts 36a Ordzhonikidze Str., Chelyabinsk, 454091, Russia; ; Sinetskiy, Sergei B.: Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts 36a Ordzhonikidze Str., Chelyabinsk, 454091, Russia
Keywords
space of cultural values; modern Russian literature; personality; social environment; aesthetic intuition; actualization of values
Abstract

The subject of values is at the cutting edge in humanitarian studies of recent decades. The article provides an insight into the space of cultural values, which the author defines as the social environment limited to a conditional frame of time and place defined by a certain set of values. This concept covers cultural mechanisms of transmission and actualization of values through the communication of various social and cultural actors. The literary process in this case becomes a functional tool for diagnosing the space of cultural values and represents a set of value-oriented relations between the individual and the social environment. The study has identified qualitative changes in the literary space that have occurred over the past three decades, its potential in the formation of the space of cultural values. Social and cultural analysis of the literary works of mainstream contemporary Russian writers Victor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin, reveal timely values such as technical and information independence, security of one’s own data, protection of individual consciousness from outside interference. In particular, this study considers the value of tolerance, brought up to date by the globalization of cultural space

Pages
927-934
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/71659

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