D. LESSING'S NOVEL "THE FIFTH CHILD" IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL TRADITION
Shanina Yuliya Aleksandrovna
M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University
Abstract. In the article D. Lessing's novel "The Fifth Child" (1988) is analyzed in correlation with European cultural tradition: literary, mythological and philosophical. As a result of the research the author comes to the conclusion that the problems of the novel are solved in the broad cultural context due to the use of the elements of mythopoetics which give multiple meaning, symbolism to the images, and parable nature to the form.
Key words and phrases: антиутопия, архетип, готический роман, мифологизм, притча, руссоизм, традиция, anti-utopia, archetype, Gothic novel, mythologism, parable, Rousseauism, tradition
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