THE CONTEMPORANEITY OF HUMAN-CIVILIZATION CONFLICT IN THE NEO-ROMANTIC NOVELS OF JACK LONDON

Abstract

The article touches upon the problem of human – nature – civilization relationship in Jack London’s fiction. It should be stated that only the modern literary criticism has revealed the origins of neo-romantic aesthetics in Jack London’s novels allowing us to consider the American author’s prose from the perspective of neo-romantic literature, which determines the novelty and modernity of the article.

The purpose of the article is to highlight the influence of civilization on the formation of human identity, to reveal the destructive consequences of the uncritical development of civilization in the modern world, and to find possible solutions taking into consideration the views and predictions of J. London on this topic. We referred to “Burning Daylight”, “The Valley of the Moon'' and other works as well as we illuminated the formation of the aesthetics of neo-romanticism in J. London’s prose.

Thus, the article examines the ways of a new approach arising as a result of the relationship between human - nature and human - civilization.