Danova, M. Ya. WOMAN’S PLACE IN EDVARD MUNCH’S WORLDVIEW – BASED ON HIS TEXTS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.218


Linguistics

WOMAN’S PLACE IN EDVARD MUNCH’S WORLDVIEW – BASED ON HIS TEXTS

Danova
M. Ya. 		Herzen State Pedagogical University
Keywords:
concept
Edvard Munch
individual style
individual thesaurus
language identity
semantic field
worldview		 Summary: This article considers woman’s place in Edvard Munch’s individual creative universe, where she is attributed a very special role of an intermediary between different worlds, connecting life and death, chaos and cosmos. This universe can be studied not only based on the artist’s visual works, but also based on his extensive written legacy. Considering Munch’s written oeuvre from the point of view of individual style and conceptual content seems timely, since this topic has not yet been considered by any of the Russian scholars. Key concepts in the corpus of Munch’s texts – for instance, the concepts of free love and woman’s ambivalence – can be discerned with the help of both inductive and deductive methods, moving from the language material towards the concept and vice versa, from the concept to the language material. Studying Munch’s worldview based on his texts makes it possible to draw conclusions not only on his individual worldview, but also on the key concepts that defined the content of the fin-de-siècle period in European art that had a considerable influence on his outlook on the world. However, reverse influence was also present: as a strong linguistic personality, Munch himself played an important role in forming the cultural thesaurus of this age, when woman was seen as a mysterious, ambivalent creature, existing between civilization and nature.



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