Сучасна фантастика в проекції Чайни Тома М’євіля
Journal Title: Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія "Філологічні науки" - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 14
Abstract
The article presents an overview of contemporary trends in Anglophone fantastic literature explored through China Miéville’s ideas on fantasy and weird fiction. It aims to show the driving force behind the generic transformations of the fantastic which are rooted in the objective need for the genre to evolve and individual creative needs of the writers who practice it. The objective reason is identified to be the repetitiveness of the fantastic canon which renders it ill-suited for accommodating visions, anxieties, and desires of the modern world. The individual reasons lie in the inability of the classical fantastic canon to express the author’s intentions for their writing. Maintaining dialogue between the fantasy and weird fiction tradition, China Mieville’s writing attempts to marry the realism of concern with the weird of expression in the secondary-world setting. The major points of fantasy criticism are overcome in the writer’s texts by abstaining from moralization, demythologizing heroism and allowing the plot to follow its own dynamics instead of the prescribed set of genre protocols which allows for a more realistic narrative. The deployment of weird fiction strategies for genre blending frees from the genre constraints and adds to the atmosphere of estrangement essential to rethinking social and aesthetic conventions. Thus, China Mieville’s writing reflects the revitalization of the literature of the fantastic and facilitates in its making.
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Д. Д. Денісова
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- DOI 10.32342/2523-4463-2017-0-14-128-134
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