MYTH AS A MEANS FOR CONSTRUCTING / RECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL PROCESS IN THE FOREIGN LITERATURE OF THE END OF THE XX - BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY
Taganov Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Shishkina Svetlana Grigor'evna
Ivanovo State University
Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology
Abstract. The article examines a tendency in the literary works to create new myth on the basis of the famous and popular plots. It is shown that myth modeling is carried out to explain historical processes and realities from the viewpoint of post-modernist theories. The authors emphasize that this tendency manifests itself most clearly in prognostic literary genres.
Key words and phrases: миф, мифологема, постмодернистская игра, новая утопия, образ истории, гипертекст, симулякр, myth, mythologeme, post-modernist game, new utopia, image of history, hypertext, simulacrum
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