THE COSTUME AS A PART OF NATIONAL AND SOCIAL PORTRAIT IDENTITY OF A REAL PERSONALITY IN BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS

Abstract

The significance of the research is in the heightened attention to the documentary, which is considered to be one of the most recent literary sciences and its basic constituent is increased focus on the means of reflection of the real historical personalities including through the studying of painting of portraits and the costume is an important element of it.
The costume is an important element of portrayal of a character in literature and documentary.
The clothing may help one to find out about the station in life, the nationality, the age, the occupation, the homeland. Writers are using the description of costumes of real personalities as a visual element of the portrayal in the documentaries very often. It is highly important to have the portrait of a character, his costume in particular, correlating with the real personality’s story in biographical novels. In cases like that, the biographer is closer to being an author of his own work than the documentary one.