SEMIOTICS OF THE SPACE OF THE HEROIC EPIC “KOROGHLU”: THE IMAGE OF THE WINDOW

Abstract

The window is an important spatial image – a symbol in the literature of the peoples of the world. Along with a threshold and a door (s), it usually indicates the border between worlds or states of the world.
The article shows the difference between the semiotics of the window in the Azerbaijani heroic epic “Koroghlu” in the context of the urban topos: in the first case, it is a sign of the homogeneity of the ideal space outside the window and inside the window, and in the second – the border separating them. The relationship between local chronotopes and palace topos is revealed. In the structure of the epic, hierarchical relations are established between the chronotope of the window and the toposes of the palace and estate.
The article examines the artistic image "window", which is significant in or- ganizing the space of the heroic epic “Koroghlu”.
The artistic image “window” is primarily an element of the interior, that is, an element of external reality.
The complex semantic structure of interacting in the context of spatial images reflects the paradigmatics of the worlds.
The central area of the semantic model of the dual world of the epic is formed by the artistic image of the window. “Window” is also a sign of a social space that defines life and death, one’s own and another’s, male and female, etc.
At the same time, the window is the border and threshold of the living personal space of epic characters.