THE WORLD OF FANTASY CREATION (on psychological truthfulness requirements in fantastic fiction) Cover Image

КАК СОЗДАЕТСЯ МИР ФЭНТЕЗИ (к вопросу о требовании психологического правдоподобия в фантастике)
THE WORLD OF FANTASY CREATION (on psychological truthfulness requirements in fantastic fiction)

Author(s): Anna Dmitrievna Gusarova
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: a actable interpretation; a paradoxical truthfulness; the image of incredible; the extra-subject reality; the secondary world; the secondary evidence; “a text in the text”;

Summary/Abstract: The given article deals with one of the existing criteria of the fantasy genre characteristic of the Russian fantasy of the late 1990s. This criterion is presented by the unique genre forming feature – specific psychological truthfulness in fantastic fiction. The essence of truthfulness is traditionally pursued by all fantasy writers who create their own imaginary and “impossible” world, which is formed in the process of act able interpretation of two worlds: a real and a historical one and the unreal, a non-narrative one. The latter embraces a fantastic plot. It also involves a unique application of the “a text in the text” method. Thus, every fantasy writer triesto create, by all possible means, a particular attitude of the secondary fantastic world to himself, a textual-illustration of the personal self-understanding. For this exclusive purpose a fantastic plot is enriched by a system of the secondary world maps and invented languages, by the secondary literature, and by the secondary folklore and myths.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1 (162)
  • Page Range: 86-89
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Russian