DIFFERENCES IN CULTURAL INTERPRETATION AND AESTHETIC DEPICTION OF WARTIME EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This article examines the differences in the cultural interpretation and aesthetic representation of wartime experience in various literary and artistic traditions. It focuses on the ways in which war, heroism, sacrifice, trauma, death, national identity, and collective memory are represented through literature, cinema, and visual art. Particular attention is paid to the differences between Western European, American, Russian, and Central Asian approaches to depicting wartime reality.