Keywords
social communication
mass media
functions of literary criticism
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Abstract
Introduction. Literary criticism is closely connected with literature, culture, mass media. It is an important part of the communication system of society. New information technologies have caused changes within literary criticism. The topicality of the research is determined by the need to rethink the classical approaches to defining the concept, objectives, and functions of literary criticism, which has undergone significant transformations in recent decades. The main objective of the study is to highlight the concept of literary criticism and to define the current tasks, functions of literary criticism as a subsystem of social communications. Methodology. Following research methods were used in this article – analysis, synthesis, interpretation, abstraction, system and comparative analysis, induction and deduction, generalization. With the help of these methods, the dynamics of changes of literary criticism in media space are researches, the characteristic features of literary criticism as a subsystem of social communications are determined. Results. The author analyzes the main approaches to defining the concept of literary criticism. Actual tasks, forms, and functions of literary criticism in the media space are studied. The author concludes that regulatory and educational functions of literary criticism become less important than functions of marketing, communication, information, and filtering. The analysis allowed us to find out which transformational processes modern literary criticism undergoes. And how the author and the form of literary-critical materials change. The characteristic features that literary criticism acquires as a subsystem of social communications are highlights. Conclusions. Modern literary criticism goes beyond traditional definitions and acquires new features. At the level of professional criticism, there is amateur criticism. The approach to the submission of materials is changing.
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