Gothic Tradition of the Mystic Experience Transformation in European Linguoculture

Abstract

The presented studies may help to view and analyse the mystical not only as a conceptual category, but also from a functional and semantic perspective, providing the opportunity to distinguish certain verbal characteristics of literary artistic texts as non-fiction sacred sources originated from different epochs of human cultural development. This study aims at disclosing cultural and functional specifics of the mystical in the English Gothic prose as a genre feature, compared to the Ukrainian mystic literature in its traditional explication and transformational period of a new era. The research methods are based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the study of semantic entities united by the common categorical content. The method of contextual analysis is focused on the immediate context of the linguistic phenomenon, descriptive, content and discourse analyses were applied for systematisation and generalisation of functional and culturally-biased pragmatic specifics of the above-mentioned conceptual category. The synthesis of the Gothic and English literary tradition determines the functioning of verbalized representations of the mystical as a central category of philosophical and aesthetic world perception. In Ukrainian literature it obtained the features of a distinctive phenomenon, genetically-rooted in the culture of popular laughter and focused on deliberate discrepancy between the content and the form to be of the utmost importance in the modern world.