On the Multi-aspect Opposition Realism <i>- </i>Non-realism
The article deals with the realism aesthetics building in the situation of confrontational relations in Russian society in the first third of the 19th century, which, on the one hand, complicated the process of elaborating aesthetic principles, dependent on extra-aesthetic factors, primarily ideological factor, on the other, enriching the literary school that was being formed. Realism inherited from its predecessors (classicists, sentimentalists, romanticists) and systemised the art tools, rethought and reformatted the oppositions that they used, prefered basing on a new type of humanism that excludes Renaissance individualism.