Fairy tale traditions in amateur and professional young writers’ creativity
The turn of the 21st century has seen Russian writers’ increased interest in the genre of fairy tale. This paper discusses young Russian writers’ approaches to fairy tale traditions in texts of their own. The subjects of the study consisted of the Debut Prize winners and the so-called amateur wri...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11771/1/19221-63585-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11771/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1043 |
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| Summary: | The turn of the 21st century has seen Russian writers’ increased interest in the genre of fairy
tale. This paper discusses young Russian writers’ approaches to fairy tale traditions in texts of
their own. The subjects of the study consisted of the Debut Prize winners and the so-called
amateur writers (fans of Tolkien’s and Rowling’s books, and gamers) and their literary
works. The study is aimed at establishing main trends in usage of folklore traditions in the
first two decades of the 21st century; the paper is also concerned with examining similarities
and differences between two generations of modern Russian writers in the matter of their
approaches to classical heritage. To compare fairy tale texts, Vladimir Propp’s narrative
model has been applied. One of the central claims of the study is that young authors tend to
emulate literary samples by prominent contemporary Russian writers (mostly by Lyudmila
Petrushevskaya). Thus, an efficient way of creating a contemporary fairy tale by a young
author is to immerse its characters into the modern reality that is presented in a variety of its
manifestations – from everyday routine to philosophic ideas. The young writers’ texts display
such traditional features of literary folklorism as genuine fairy tale plots and motifs, their
structural and style models, characters, magical objects, and the artistic device of
estrangement. |
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