ON THE PROBLEM OF GENRE PECULIARITIES OF A POETIC STRUGGLE FOR IDEALISM (AKIM VOLYNSKY AND KONSTANTIN LDOV)

The article is devoted to the problems of studying the works of the middle ground writers, the poetics of authors just forgotten, but who at the end of the 19th century played a remarkable role in the history of Russian literature. The article discusses a need to analyze a genre aspect of the literary process of early symbolism - the time when attention to the genre category becomes more acute (at least at the level of artistic experimentation if not at the level of theoretical understanding) ? by the examples of genre peculiarities of reflection the idealistic concept of Volynski in the poetry of Konstantin Ldov. It seems to be important both for studying poetics and history of Russian symbolism and for description of the aesthetic system of A. Volynsky who was the first ideologist of “true symbolism” of the end of the 19th century, whose contribution to Russian culture is still underestimated.