Evolution of conceptions concerning the originality of M. Gorky as the artist in philological science of the turn of the XX – XXI centuries (towards the history of the question)

The article presents the review of the most considerable papers in the field of M. Gorky's creation, published of the turn of the XX – XXI centuries. Activization of researchers' attention to the writer is connected with the necessity to overcome the sociological and theoretical stereotypes of the social consciousness. The papers of N. Novgorod scientists devoted to the creation of integral ethical / aesthetic conception of M. Gorky's creation are introduced in detail.