The author of the scientific research does not set the goal of exhaustively fully explain the state of the problem of artistic time and space in modern literary criticism, to give its genesis, the history of study, neither to propose its own theoretical concept. The scientific research is giving the outlook on the conceptions of time and space as investigated by the prominent literary criticism authors as well as is considering the theoretical concepts of artistic time and space in the creative

more »

... work of XX century writers. The research given is about the system of conceptual concepts that have developed in modern literary criticism, which can be relied upon in the study of the uniqueness of the artistic time and space of the novels of the English writer I. Murdoch, in particular, her novels, published in 1960s.