Litvinenko Ninel Anisimovna – Doctor in Philology, professor; full professor at the State University of Education; ORCHID: 0000-0001-6400-9176
The study of poetics and the role of the Gothic in the French historical and Romantic style at the beginning of the twenty first century is gaining new relevance in the context of differentiation of the traditions of phrenetic and Gothic writing, the comprehension of the psychological and aesthetic categories of scary and terrible, the phenomena of perception and imagination, fantasy and fiction. The achievements of Gothic novelistics in French literature of the post–revolutionary era anticipate the flourishing of Gothic and Gothic genres in the literature of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. This study identifies the main features of the Gothic as general poetic category and individual manner in the general literary context and on the basis of the French historical and Romantic novel. The article examines the main approaches of modern literary critics to the interpretation of these phenomena in connection with the specifics of the categories of fear and horror as dominant elements of Gothic poetics in the French Romantic novel. Gothic is considered as one of the universal categories of aesthetics that have evolved throughout the entire process of literary de-velopment. The evolution of the Gothic principle in the French Romantic historical and non–historical novels in the first half of the nineteenth century resulted in the formation of the spectrum of transitional forms of scary and terrible in the Romantic and non-Romantic novel. The paths of the future development of the Romantic historical novel and of the evolution of the Gothic in the twentieth-century novel and in the culture of subsequent years were forming in the literary discourse of the epoch.
The Gothic; Gothic; Romanticism; poetics and aesthetics; novel