MORALISTIC STORY ON THE PAGES OF J.CH. GOTTSCHED’S MAGAZINE "THE HONEST PERSON"
The genre nature of the metastories about female virtue published by J.Ch. Gottsched in his moral weekly "The Honest Person" for 1728 is investigated. Features of their genre form and genre contents are analyzed. It is shown that both metastories are used by the author as illustrative material to the moralistic maxim stated in a frame. The basis of family wellbeing of Efrosiniya and Sofronisk - the main characters of the frame narration - is the domination of the reason over feelings. The rational behavior is elevated by them into the moral law and from this perspective an assessment of characters' actions of the metastories is given.