The stylistics of theatrical reviews and the art-consciousness of modernity

Abstract

This article is devoted to stylistic peculiarities of theatrical review which reflect specifity of modern art-consciousness. The aim of the article is to reveal briefly the phenomenon of artconsciousness of the time and to explain its specifity as a factor influencing the stylistics of theatrical review, to track the reflection of this phenomenon in the materials of Russian massmedia. The article covers the complex of questions connected with the functioning of the genre of review and main tendencies in the language of theatrical criticism. The subject of the article is of interest in connection with the relevance of the issue of the interaction of the language of mass-media and modern culture. The article analyzes speech tools which reflect and form perception of art specific. Linguistic means which are used for the expression of aesthetic appreciation and factors influencing the aesthetics reviews are also considered in the article and it also touches upon the actual subject of the postmodernism influence on the language of the content in modern art. Theatrical reviews published in the Russian media, mainly in journals, covering a wide range of topics (in print and online versions of modern Russian national newspapers) as well as in thematic publications devoted to leisure and culture, and in specialized editions about the theatre have been used for the analysis.