Language ​​of Melodrama, Playing Epos, and Soviet Metaphysics

Authors

  • Anna Sinitskaya Samara Institute for Advanced Studies and Professional Retraining of Educators (SIPKRO)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the features of melodramatic plot and the epic and heroic genre models. Their paradoxical interaction in the adventure stories of the Soviet period is investigated based on the works by Arkady Gaidar and Vladislav Krapivin. In the post-Soviet context, the works by Maria Galina are analyzed. Reception of essential foreign texts that made it into the domain of children’s readings in Russia is investigated and it includes such foreign authors as Alexandre Dumas, George. Tolkien, Clive S. Lyuis. Special function of the genre of adventure story and its cinematic representation (films by L. Nechaev, G.Yungvald-Khilkevich) is discussed within the Soviet cultural context.

Keywords: adventure literature, heroic and epic plot, fantasy, melodrama, Gothic, George Tolkien, Krapivin, mystical character of post-soviet world view

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Published

2016-12-19

How to Cite

Sinitskaya А. (2016). Language ​​of Melodrama, Playing Epos, and Soviet Metaphysics. Children’s Readings: Studies in Children’s Literature, 10(2), 214–236. Retrieved from https://detskie-chtenia.ru/index.php/journal/article/view/227

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Literature for Children and Soviet Ideology