IMPRESSIONIST DRAMA (THE DICTIONARY ENTRY)
The article considers the genre-stylistic uniqueness of Impressionist drama in a single general cultural context of impressionism. The genre originality of European and Russian I.D. is determined, on the one hand, by the general impressionistic aesthetic and philosophical tendencies characterising the cultural consciousness of the transitional period, on the other hand, by special ways of embodying these tendencies in the dramatic forms with unique generic resources. I.D. tends to "small dramaturgy", one-act plays that fix the decadent moods in a series of pictures focused on small, "chamber" theaters.