Stadiality of development of the Ossetian literature at a boundary of the 19-20th centuries
The research deals with the process of formation of small Ossetian prose at the boundary of the 19-20th centuries from stadiality positions. The Ossetian literature belonging to young written literatures passed the difficult accelerated way of development that influenced the choice of an art method and genre palette of the first writers. The authors of this work analyze the role of folklore, in particular, of taurag narrative genre in the course of origin of national literature. The purpose of this research is to identify individual and typological traits of development of the Ossetian literature in a wide culturological context of literary interrelations and interferences. Comparative and typological methodology gives opportunities for identification of relationships of cause and effect of the revealed trends in development of the Ossetian literary process at an early stage of development. Specifications and literary descriptions of a number of the definitions, which do not have literary identification in the Ossetian literary criticism, are of scientific value. As a result, it is concluded that A.B. Kotsoev acted as the founder of emergence of small Ossetian prose at the beginning of the 20th century. In comparison with stories- taurags by S. Gadiev, the genre specifics of prose of A. Kotsoev are brought most closer to the international literary standards, first of all, it is displayed in withdrawal from folklore traditions.