‘Death of a Hero’: the plot of the child’s death in the didactic prose of the end of XVIII century

Abstract

The article by Inna Sergienko “‘Death of a Hero’: the plot of the child’s death in the didactic prose of the end of XVIII century” deals with the function of the death of a child character in the plot of didactic short stories for children written at the end of the XVIII century. The author examines the interpretations of this plot and the causes for its ubiquity it in this genre of children’s literature. The analysis of poetics of the children’s literature is based on the materials of didactic fiction, which was translated into Russian at that time.   Keywords: children's literature of the 18th century, a plot about the death of a child, a moralizing tale