Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1174-1180 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82’06:7.035.9(075.8) Traditionalism Through the Prism of the Neosentimentalist Discourse (Based on V. Gurkin’s Dramaturgy) Tatiana N. Breeva* Kazan Federal University 18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia Received 17.01.2016, received in revised form 28.02.2016, accepted 05.05.2016 The article analyzes the specifi city of the traditionalism trends functioning in the Russian literature of the second half of the XX century in the context of neosentimentalism discourse. <...> Its universality and functional multiplicity provides its widespread penetration into the literary process of that time and integration with various literary phenomena: postmodernism, feminine prose, literature of “new biographism”, “new drama”, etc. <...> Neosentimentalist discourse activation becomes a means of overcoming crisis results of postmodern intellectual paradigm and primarily performs the rehabilitation function, reviving a set of constants, including an ethical one and that of human existence. <...> Axiological potential of neosentimentalist discourse is represented through the category of corporeity, acquiring positive semantic connotations. <...> Integration of neosentimentalist discourse with the literature of traditionalism provides the evidence of a state of its (literature) crisis and tendency to vary the forms and methods of artistic expression. <...> Keywords: literature of the Russian traditionalism, neosentimentalist discourse, postmodernist artistic paradigm, feminine prose, V. Gurkin’s dramaturgy. <...> The sentimentalist turn, which is differently defi ned in literary criticism (neosentimentalism, new sentimentality, sentimentalist discourse), is stated by almost all the researchers analyzing the modern state of the Russian prose. <...> The whole group of authors such as L. Petrushevskaya, L. Ulitskaya, M. Palei, N. Gorlanova, G. Shcherbakova, S. Vasilenko, © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: tbreeva@mail.ru # 1174 # “new sentimentality” (in M. Epstein’s T. Kibirov, E. Grishkovets, N. Kolyada, etc. work in the context of these defi nitions. <...> Most literary scholars regard the emergence of this tendency as a logical result of the “‘postmodernist’ era outcome”, a response to the emergence of “a feeling of some new seriousness” (M. Epstein). <...> Describing new sentimentality, N. Leiderman and M. Lipovetskii note that “in its pathos it is opposite to postmodernist skepticism and gets back to the traditions of the artistic system <...>