Belarusian literature of 11th–21st centuries: establishment and evolution of genres

Abstract

The article describes the research on the problem of the movement of genre forms in domestic artistic writing carried out by scientists of the department of history of Belarusian literature of the faculty of philology of the Belarusian State University in 2023. Genre processes in the texts of Old Belarusian oratorical prose of the 12^th–13^th centuries, literary monuments of the 16^th – beginning of the 17^th centuries, genre syncretism in polemical works of the end of the 16^th – the first half of the 17^th centuries are highlighted, innovations in the genre system of Belarusian poetry and prose of the 19^th and 20^th– 21^st centuries are characterised. The prospects for comparative and semiotic research of genre canons and their modifications in modern domestic literary criticism are outlined.