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Series 9

PHILOLOGY. ASIAN STUDIES. JOURNALISM.

Issue 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Section LITERATURE
Codes UDC 821.111(73) Page 101-109
Title THE ARCHETYPAL IMAGE OF THE HOUSE IN THE NOVEL “THE EIGHTH DAY” BY THORNTON WILDER
Author 1 Puzhova Elena I. Kuban State University
149, ul. Stavropolskaya, Krasnodar, 350040, Russian Federation
post-graduate student
e-mail: elenapujova@yandex.ru
Summary The article is devoted to one of the most important aspects of the novels with parable meanings based on the archetypal level of narration. In our opinion, the archetype of the House is the key type in the novel of American writer Thornton Wilder’s “The Eighth Day”. That’s why it is the subject of study in our article. Although there are a lot of researches about archetype of the House (including American literature), but Wilder’s creation works have not been studied from this point of view yet. An extensive understanding of this archetype of the House is given in this article, i.e. in Wilder’s novel it is not only the Family, the Hearth, the Life Space, but first of all - the Soul, the House-God. The original solution in the novel “The eighth Day” is that the archetype of the House is closely connected with the archetypes the Escape and the Wanderer (the Pilgrim).
Keywords archetype, archetypal images, the House, the Wanderer (the Pilgrim), the Escape, novel with parable meaning, motif.