МETAMORPHOSIS THEME OF “PETTY BOURGEOIS HAPPINESS” IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Mehtiev V. G.¹, Domysheva Y. A.²
¹Pacific national University, Khabarovsk, doctor of philological Sciences, Professor, head of Department of literature and journalism
²Pacific national University, Khabarovsk, 4th year student of the faculty of Philology and intercultural communication, bachelor of Philology

Abstract
This article is devoted to the research of a complex socio-cultural phenomenon – the «petty bourgeoisie», which has developed historically in a Russian society. Means of research are come out the works: texts of A. S. Pushkin, M. Gorky, V. V. Mayakovsky, the dilogy N. G. Pomyalovsky «Petty bourgeois happiness», «Molotov» and the poems of modern poets T. Kibirov and B. A. Slutsky. The aims of research is to define the word «Petty bourgeois happiness», to reveal its aesthetic features in the context of the classical literature of the nineteenth century and postmodern literature of the second half of the twentieth century.

Keywords: moral quality, narrow-mindedness, petty bourgeois happiness, petty bourgeoisie in the nobility, social status, utilitarianism

Category: Literature

Article reference:
Мetamorphosis theme of "Petty bourgeois happiness" in russian literature // Humanities scientific researches. 2016. № 7 [Electronic journal]. URL: https://human.snauka.ru/en/2016/07/15614