The phenomenon of childhood and adolescence as presented in Belarusian narratives about the Great Patriotic War

Authors

  • Tatsiana Robertovna Baharadava Polоtsk State University, 29 Blokhin Street, Navapolack 211440, Belarus

Keywords:

double vision, eidetic image, shift of consciousness, stream of consciousness, syncretism, retransmission, lyrical principle of typification
Supporting Agencies
Writing the article became possible owing to the fact that the author participates in the national budget topic «The images “self” – “non-serlf” in the national picture of the world as presented in Belarusian, Russian and foreign literatures and languages» (No. 2216).

Abstract

The article dwells on the problem of childhood and adolescence as presented in Belarusian war narratives. The author of the article does the literary research of the topic of childhood and adolescence in the context of war and post-war time. This topic in the texts is revealed via the perception of writers who faced war in either their childhood or in their youth and via children’s understanding of war. The author analyses the methods of war reality depiction given from the retrospective viewpoint in the works of Belarusian writers. The research novelty lies in the fact of stating the literary devices used by Belarusian authors in creating war context through the comparative historical aspect. The author finds out the tendencies of artistic understanding and depicting reality in diverse works about war.

Author Biography

  • Tatsiana Robertovna Baharadava, Polоtsk State University, 29 Blokhin Street, Navapolack 211440, Belarus

    senior lecturer at the department of world literature and foreign languages, faculty of humanities

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Published

2019-03-01

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No. 2 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Literary Research

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Baharadava, T.R. 2019. The phenomenon of childhood and adolescence as presented in Belarusian narratives about the Great Patriotic War. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 2 (Mar. 2019), 17–25.