This article realizes the task of identifying features of female images in the stories of A.I. Kuprin «Olesya» and «Sulamith». It is known that the female image often became the central character of the artistic text of the author in question, which determined the need to address this issue. In the depiction of the main characters, there is a community embodied in such an artistic device as a literary portrait of a character. The ambiguity and incompleteness of the study of the literary portrait in contemporary literary criticism testifies to the relevance of this work. Highlighting the main functions of the portrait of the character - descriptive, psychological, and evaluative - the peculiarity of the representation of women's portraits of Kuprin is determined. The images of «Olesya» and «Sulamith» realize the ideal images of the feminine element. Such an approach in the depiction of a literary hero forms the author's connection with mythopoetics. In the description of heroines, the author often uses portrait details. Eyes - the central portrait detail of Kuprin in the creation of a psychological portrait. With the help of such a detail, the descriptive and psychological functions of the portrait are realized simultaneously. The color used by the author on portrait details carries a symbolic and evaluative function, which speaks about the features of the writer's worldview and style. The author uses blue and white colors, the meaning of which reflects the hero's positive inner world, thereby helping to more deeply imagine and appreciate the hero. Thus, with the comparative analysis of female portraits in the novels «Olesya» and «Sulamith», the symbolic function of the portrait is revealed. While the image of both the external and spiritual beauty of the character indicates a community with the long cultural traditions of the hero's representation in art, when external beauty coincided with the inner world of the hero.
literaturnyy portret, zhenskiy obraz, funkciya portreta, portretnaya detal'
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