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What is motif of a literary work? Types of motifs.
24) What is motif of a literary work? Types of motifs.
Motif is the active, selected component of artistic material, theme of small part of a literary work, which cannot be divided any more. The motifis simple, indivisible unit of the narrative. It extracts from a variety of repetitions and variations. Motif is embodied in a simple verbal formula. In this sense motive identical to concept. The motif can be regarded as a category of comparative historical literature. By motive we have in mind the archetypes that are in different cultural and historical periods, operate in a variety of mythological motifs. Motifs can be thematic, ideological, problem, word, pretentious. Under the motif we can understand some repetitive keywords that represent different aspects of the literary work, that is, motives can be narrative, descriptive, lyrical, intertextual, inline. The leading motive of the work is called a leitmotif. In modern literary criticism there is a tendency to analyze the literary work in terms of leitmotif structure. In this case, the motif appears as the basic unit of analysis. It may appeared many times and always in a new version, new contours and even in the new combinations with other motifs.
25) The variety of themes. Types of themes.
In the literary works there are invariably embodied (by the will of the author or without it) life constants, their fundamental properties. These are eternal themes, first of all, such as the universal and natural beginnings (универсалии), as chaos and space, movement and an immovability, life and death, light and darkness, fire and water. All of them make a complex of ontologic themes in literature.
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