BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (BASED ON THE FAIRY TALE BY V. L. LAVRINA “WONDERFUL DRESSES”)
The article deals with the analisis of the peculiarities of biblical discourse in contemporary children's literature on the basis of works of Kemerovo writer V. L. Lavrina, considerable part of that is made by fairy-tales for children. The specifics of the literary fairy tale is determined both by the individual peculiarities of the author's view of the world and by the external factors set, including the codes of genre memory. The range of genre memory, characteristic for most fairy-tales of V. L. Lavrina, includes not only traditions of folklore and literary magic fairy-tale, but also christian literature. The spiritual and moral issues of the fairy-tale “Wonderful dress”, coupled with the themes of love and betrayal, crime and punishment, sacrifice and selfishness, the real and the imaginary, are conceptualized in the context of the biblical allusion plan dating back to the Old Testament story of King David and Uriah.
Keywords: children's literature, modern literary process, biblical discourse, allusion, motive, spiritual and moral issues, religious picture of the world, parable
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Issue: 10, 2015
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Pages: 179 — 183
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