TRANSFORMATION OF THE VALUABLE-ARCHETYPICAL COMPLEX “NOAH’S ARK” IN THE POETICS OF ANTIMYPH IN THE NOVEL “THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS” BY J. BARNS

Abstract

The article focuses on the myth “Noah’s Ark” as an archetypal complex from the point of view of its value in the structure of the postmodern novel. The authors of the article study methods of reception of the main archetypal motifs of this complex, features of demythologization, methods of transformation of biblical mythologems. It is noted that the artistic strategies of such a transformation are conditioned by postmodern principles of irony, intertextuality, play, desacralization, total grotesque in the novel. The Barnes’ interpretation of the “Noah’s Ark” complex was considered in the context of the antimyth’s poetic paradigm.