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Abstract: Authorial myth creation (“author’s self-will”), scenography and intermedial discourse in the transformations of the plot about Medea in the 20th–21st centuries are vividly seen against the background of exploration of their functioning in the process of national parallels, which contributes to productive comprehension of the reception of the constant components of myth by one or another national mentality. In this respect, the analysis of the ancient plot about Medea in terms of conceptual mythologization based on the dramatic experience of such authors of the 20th–21st centuries as H. H. Jahn, H. Muller, J. Anouilh, L. Gode, T. Lanoye, M. Kurochkin, V. Klimenko, L. Razumovskaya, L. Petrushevskaya and others appears to be urgent. Ancient myth as one of the most stable constants of world culture embraces diverse cultural and ethico-aesthetical phenomena. The study traces the formation of the reception and interpretation of Medea’s image from the canonic embodiment in the precedent text through the process of his-torical development to the modern literary and theatrical component of the spiritual experience of European and Russian play-wrights and leading directors of the 20th–21st centuries, which allows filling the ancient mythological image with urgent content and manipulating its perception not only by the reader but also the viewer. The invariants of Medea’s image, rethought by means of author’s creative “self-will” and supplied with the new realities of modern life, take a specific place in the gynocentric literature because this in-depth image has incorporated into itself almost all problems and contradictions of the woman’s struggle for her intellectual and social independence and individuality. The art of the 20th – early 21st centuries is becoming more and more visualized, and the nature of a dramatic work demands its scenic embodiment, i.e. not only verbal, but also visual and audial perception. The emergence of new synthetic kinds of media arts and new forms of their interaction demand new analytical approaches to their comprehension in different national models of the worldview of the era of multiculturalism. This explains the specific focus of the suggested method on the aspects of multi-genre property, intermediality, and perspectives of building cross-cultural paradigms.

About the author(s) :

Tatiana A. Sharypina
National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8585-8983

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 26.02.2024; date of publication: 30.10.2024

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