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https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-18.096
Burtseva Marina A.,
Сandidate of Philological sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Oriental Languages and Area Studies
North-Eastern Federal University
e-mail: donnarosa36912@mail.ru
Burtsev Anatoly A.,
Doctor of Letters, Professor,
Department of Russian and World Literature
North-Eastern Federal University
e-mail: anatoly_burtsev44@mail.ru
The article studies the composition features of “The Reluctant Dragon”, a children’s fairy tale by Kenneth Grahame, a Scottish writer, one of the classics of the children’s literature. The story was published as a chapter in his Dream Days (1898). The composition as the basis of the organization of the subject matter of the work is a system of intertextual discourses and includes the following elements: various modifications of the narration (observing chronicle, emotional narrative and omniscient auctorial); phrases of the characters in the form of the agreeing / disagreeing dialogue, understanding / misunderstanding dialogue, and the opposing dialogue; a specific form of anti-dialogue; and discourse-emphasized reflections-mediations. The research of the compositional features of the English literary fairy tale, basing on the textual reality of the work, allows deeper revealing of its artistic and aesthetic value.
Keywords: composition, subject matter, discourse, narration, dialogue, meditation.
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