Sociocultural Environment of Decadence as the Basis for World Modelling in I.S. Turgenev's "Senilia"
The article features a conceptual comparative analysis of the romantic vs. decadent type of creativity. The author argues that the world modeling in «Senilia» is based on Turgenev's rethinking of the so called canons of romantic poetics in the context of the system of decadent ideas and values, decadence regraded as the way of understanding the world, expressing the current sociocultural trends in the Russian history of the 1870-1880s.