Horror Motifs in the Creative Work of A. Starobinets (by the Material of the Collection “The Icarus Gland”)
Trushkina Aliona Petrovna
National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University
Submitted: 19.12.2022
Abstract. The paper is devoted to analysing the collection “The Icarus Gland” (2010) by Anna Starobinets. The research was undertaken in order to identify the elements of horror in the prose writer’s short stories. First, the author of the paper summarises the opinions of researchers about the genre features of the phenomenon under consideration, then analyses the specifics of the existence of horror motifs and horror images in the texts of the Russian writer, comparing her plot collisions with literary and cinematic plots of Western predecessors. The research is novel in that it is the first to consider the plots of the short stories by A. Starobinets through the lens of foreign horror culture. As a result, it has been proved that the writer, taking into account the peculiarities of the canonical pieces of horror literature (the works of I. Levin, S. King, C. Barker), rethinks the nature of the emotion that the genre in question causes: Starobinets is not focused on fear of death, but on fear of reality, the phenomena of which are often inevitable (poverty, loneliness, loss of self etc.). The prose writer, using horror images and horror motifs popular in mass culture, hyperbolises everyday situations and brings them to the point of absurdity.
Key words and phrases: А. Старобинец, сборник «Икарова железа», хоррор, монструозное, готический хронотоп, A. Starobinets, collection “The Icarus Gland”, horror, the monstrous, Gothic chronotope
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