No. 66 (2017): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Russian language and literature

BESTIARITY CODE IN FAIRY TALES WRITTEN BY LUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAYA

O. KORNIIENKO

Published 2017-02-27

Keywords

  • bestiarity code,
  • postmodern game,
  • intertextuality,
  • grotesque,
  • parody,
  • deconstruction
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Abstract

The article discusses the specificity of bestiarity code in the works of Ludmila Petrushevskaya “Book of Adventure: Stories for children and adults” and a cycle of “Wild Animals Tales: The first domestic affair with a continuation”. A typology of fantastic characters in prose Petrushevskaya where in terms of the affected issues bestiarity code allocated characters are at “the crossroads” and the intersection of animal and anthropomorphic worlds, which blurred the boundaries
between the fictional and the actual “unidentified” creature.