CREATIVE STRATEGIES IN V. SOLOVYOV LITERARY STUDIES (BASED ON HIS WORKS “F. TYUTCHEV’S POETRY” AND “RUSSIAN SYMBOLISTS”)
The work analyzes key creative strategies in V. Solovyov literary criticism of the mid-1890s and examines the nature of the critic’s communication with the reader and his principles of organizing a communicative act, based on the article “Poetry of F. Tyutchev” and the reviews “Russian Symbolists”. The aims of the work are: to confirm the presence of special creative strategies in the dialogue of this critic with the reader; to understand the logic of their use; to analyze the nature of the communicative space built in his critical prose. The article concludes that, as a critic, Solovyov consciously used educational-prophetic and game creative strategies when organizing a dialogue with the reader and applied them depending on the urgent tasks and the external literary situation. The antinomic nature of these strategies indicated a combination of contemplative-reflexive as well as constructive and game focuses in the creative mind of the critic, and his desire to combine rhetorical and dialogical attitudes to the addressee. Solovyov first absolutized his thought and suggested it to the reader, then he deliberately made the text ambiguous, provoking the reader’s consciousness to respond. In this regard, Solovyov’s literary and critical work reflects the main trends in the Russian literary process of the late 19<sup>th</sup> century.