Literary position - the literary term
The author of article tries to reveal specifics of the literary concept "literary position". In modern literary criticism there is no accurate definition of the concept "literary position", in scientific encyclopedias and reference books the term is still not recorded. But, despite it, it is rather actively mentioned in many researches analyzing art works of writers. Having considered and analysed literary works of different years on this problem (Lidiya Azarina, Pyotr Bukharkin, Andrey Vinogradov, Kamsar Grigor'yan, Aleksandr Dyrdin, O.F. Konovalova, Nina Korolyova, Vadim Rak, Ol'ga Lebedeva, Jelena Nõmm, Vera Proskurina, Il'ya Serman, Dar'ya Hitrova, Tat'yana Shishkova, Boris Eikhenbaum and other scientists), we came to the following conclusions. Definition of "the literary position" incorporates such features, as: 1) system of philosophical and esthetic views of the writer, outlook, individual relation to the reality phenomena, and also his or her creative person; 2) an art method and specifics of its embodiment in creativity; 3) variety of stylistic receptions in the works of the writer influencing specifics of moral substance and figurativeness of creativity; 4) an originality of motives in works of art; 5) interaction of the author and reader, their dialogue; 6) the author's position, writer's attitude towards heroes of an art narrative; 7) assessment of works of the writer by contemporaries and literary critics).