Incarnation of meaning in a dramatic work

Abstract

The object of research in the proposed article is the semantic organization of a dramatic work. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of updating the meaning in a dramatic work, due to its generic specifics. The specifics of artistic meaning are described in this article with the concept of incarnation (implementation). At the same time, the article reveals not theological, but aesthetic (based on the works of Bakhtin of the 1920s) and the hermeneutic content of the above concept. The article focuses on identifying the generic features of incarnation of meaning in works of both classical and modern drama. The scientific novelty of the article is determined by the fact that for the first time (through the concept of incarnation) it reveals the generic features of updating the meaning in a dramatic work, namely: 1) emphasis on the process of transition of the meaning of the characters’ being from the mode of possibility to the mode of reality; 2) placing in the center of the world of drama a character who is in a situation of making a choice of his own life meaning from a range of possible options for its implementing; 3) artistic understanding of the characters life as a limited horizon for the implementation of semantic possibilities, as indicated by the specifics of the image of time (as conditional “now”, unfinished present) and space (as limited and visible conditional “here”); 4) in a non-classical drama, the connection of incarnation of meaning with the image of characters throwing “their being at opportunity” (Heidegger) is mainly not in the space of interpersonal communication, but in the spheres of consciousness and/or language.