THE SATIRICAL-DIDACTIC RETHINKING OF THE ROMANCE MOTIF OF THE TRIAL IN THE NOVEL THE GROATH-WORTH OF WITTE, BOUGHT WITH A MILLION OF REPENTANCE BY R. GREENE

Abstract

The article reveals the way of renewing the genre tradition in the creative work final for Greene's novel innovation. The study connects the orientation of the artistic experiment at the satirical recoding of the romance model of a hero's initiation with the author's didactic intention at disclosing the destructiveness of the human mind detached from the morality. The exploration defines the correlation of the ridiculous and the serious in the novel as an indicator of changing
the Renaissance-Manneristic criteria of the poetic creativity with those of the Baroque; the research clarifies this aesthetic transformation as the basis for revealing the comic mode in the course of the reproduction of the structure of the medieval exеmplum resulting in a number of the examples of both author-narrator's and heroes' anti-initiation.