Гетеротопии в современном городском фольклоре и литературе
Heterotopia in the poetics of the modern urban folklore and literature

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses heterotopias as two-dimensional model genres of contemporary urban folklore – horror stories and sadistic rhymes. It reveals their terrible space unlike the traditional folklore and typological connection with contemporary postmodern Russian literature. Characteristic of the archaic and classical folklore category of his/foreign, cultural/natural acquire new semantics and pragmatics, they are included in the universal game space in which laughter is not so much a win as it displaces fear. In literature, the new aesthetic paradigm becomes increasingly more important: “the pleasure of the text” (Roland Barthes) gives way to another, shock methods “estrangement” (fear, horror, disgust from the text). They generate special aesthetics, in which the terrible space becomes one of the key heterotopias of the contemporary culture.

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