Non-fiction prose as one of the trends in the literary process of the North Caucasus

The non-fiction literature phenomenon is one of the most interesting, unique for the North Caucasus and the least studied phenomena of intellectual, spiritual, artistic culture located at the intersection of literature, journalism, and humanitarian knowledge, which determines the relevance and feasibility of studying this problem. The aim of the article is to consider the leading trends in the development of non-fiction literature of the North Caucasus, taking into account the uniqueness of the historical and literary, ethnocultural, multi-confessional state of the region, as well as the variety of national and predetermined Russian and world literature folklore traditions and relations. The article has developed the question of the basic prerequisites for the emergence and development of non-fiction literature in the works of enlightenment writers at its most important stages.The leading approach to the study of the problem is the analysis of the interaction of the worldview and the method of non-fiction authors in the North Caucasus and the correlation of documentary and artistic typification in their works. The close relationship of national documentary prose with journalism is revealed, the interaction in them of the theory and practice of intercultural communication in the unity of its form (genres) and analytical content is justified, the productivity of this type of creativity for the modern sociocultural situation in a particular region is proved. The significance of the article both theoretically and practically is due to the fact that its results can be used as elements of a methodological base for further research on the issues identified

Media discourse of russian literature and literary criticism at the beginning of the 21st Century

The purpose of the article is to identify and justify the media functions of fiction and literary criticism in the conditions of transformation of the Russian cultural space. The relevance of the work is due to the need to update the methodological apparatus of the analysis of modern literary text. These issues are most appropriate to study in the context of the problems of literary critical discourse and the editorial policy of literary and artistic journals. The characteristics of the communicative aspects of fiction, a description of the specifics of the publishing activities of modern literary and fiction magazines, and the definition of the role of literary criticism in the process of interpreting fiction allow to propose a new paradigm of analysis of the latest Russian literature, as well as to describe the characteristics that enable it to be included in the structure of the information space. The study is based on an integrated interdisciplinary methodology. The theoretical significance lies in a comprehensive analysis of the functioning of postmodern literature and literary criticism as part of a communicative system. The practical significance of this aspect of the study of literary space consists in the development of a new methodological apparatus of literary criticism, focused on the analysis of Russian postmodern texts. The results of the work consist in the selection and systematization of analytical tools taken from the Western postmodern model, productive for the analysis of Russian texts, if they are combined with the existing practice of literary analysis