ENGLISH POSTMODERN LITERARY TALE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE "OPEN" TEXT (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE TALE "CORALINE" BY NEIL GAIMAN )
Khartung Viktoriya Yur'evna
Orenburg State Pedagogical University
Abstract. The article aims to examine the poetics and structure of the English literary tale as one of the types of postmodern literary discourse. Having analyzed the imagery structure, allusive markers and traditional binary oppositions of a tale by the example of one of the works of the famous postmodern writer N. Gaiman the researcher concludes that modern author’s tale is a striking example of the so called "open" text presupposing numerous interdependent interpretations and active role of a reader in text generation.
Key words and phrases: постмодернизм, литературная сказка, авторская сказка, интертекстуальность, открытый текст, аллюзия, культурный код, post-modernism, literary tale, author’s tale, intertextuality, open text, allusion, cultural code
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