PHILOLOGY. ASIAN STUDIES. JOURNALISM.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | LITERATURE | ||
| Codes UDC | 821.161.1.0 | Page | 14-25 |
| Title | COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN THE �MIDDLE-LITERATURE� OF THE XX-XXI CENTURIES: THE L. ULITSKAYA�S CASE | ||
| Author 1 | Bogdanova Olga V. | Institute of Philology Investigatojns St. Petersburg State University 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation Doctor of Philology, Professor e-mail: olgabogdanova03@mail.ru |
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| Author 2 | Kovtun Natalya V. | Institute of Philology and Language Communication Sibirian Federal University 82A, pr. Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russian Federation Doctor of Philology, Professor; e-mail: nkovtun@mail.ru |
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| Summary | The article analyzes the poetics of L. Ulitskaya�s novel �Medea and Her Children� in the context of artistic communication, made between the characters, as between the author and the reader. The novel is considered in the �middle-literature� paradigm, which takes place between elite and mass literature. Th e article proves that the writer presents the text as a multi-level system that can be interpreted in diff erent categories of complexity: from superficial perception of the �soap opera� plot to the understanding of the underlying codes and the archetypes, which are opened to dedicated persons. The novel as metatext contains references to the motives and images of world classics, which are needed to decipher, to fi nd traces of the original meaning, the initial scenarios proposed to humanity by the Creator. Th e conceptual basis of the work was the myth of Sophia Wisdom Divine, an artist painting the primary blueprint of the universe and inviting other artists to co-create (the muse and the artist). The novel - the ironical statement of the author to enter into the circle of the elect, the family of Medea, whose image is highlighted by signs of Sofia - is the embodiment of style. The mission of the reader is to pass the initiation of the plot and guess all its variations with the power of letters resembling dragon�s teeth, to detect in these traces of meaning the �Golden Fleece�, much as Medea who led Jason to such a purpose. | ||
| Keywords | Ulitskaya, �Medea and Her Children�, artistic communication, post-modernism, �middleliterature�. | ||