Worldview knowledge in literary and artistic creation

Literary work is a specific sphere of expression of author's subjectivity, in particular the author's worldview attitudes. The author's world outlook is expressed in the works by means of certain forms, the study of which reveals a certain logic in the expression of the world outlook orientations of the subject of literary works in the literary process. The book contains detailed historical and theoretical aspect of the investigated problem as well as the analysis of the forms of world outlook knowledge in the sphere of literary and artistic creation. Such forms are basic means of artistic expression and modelling, i.e. artistic image and artistic concept which are the basic units for building artistic and linguistic picture of the world. Both pictures of the world represent a single integrity, explicating the author's artistic model of the world, based on which lies immanent consciousness of the subject of literary creation of the world. The book is intended for specialists in literary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in issues of creative self-actualization of personality.