Artistic world of literature and the phenomenon of children's perception of the world. Article one

The article focuses on the history of the concept 'artistic world of literature' in Russian philosophical criticism of the end of the19th-beginning of the 20th century and in Russian literary studies of the 1970s-1990s. The article also presents a method for analysing the 'artistic world' of a literary work (on the example of the analyses of the artistic 'world of childhood' in the works by K. Aksakov, F. Dostoevsky, Ch. Aytmatov). The world of children's lives - their essential being - is ontologically determined by a succession of events, following one another. In the context of these events we can find deeply hidden potential of existential perception of the world a child sees around himself. Reproducing in their works the inner world of a child, the writers reproduce personal, active and axiological nature of personal development.