POLITENESS IN THE LITRARY WORKS: THE ARTISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD AS A MANIFESTATION OF ARTISTIC THINKING

Fiction is a creative and individual knowledge of the world transmitted to the reader through language. It is a repository of cultural values and individual author's views and ideas. The language of fiction is a way of verbalizing thinking. According to O.G. Revzina, "poetic language extracts the hidden knowledge about the world contained in language." The existence of artistic thinking as a certain way of extracting knowledge is beyond doubt. It is "artistic" knowledge as an aesthetic way of cognition of the world, the sensual exploration of reality.