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Horror literature in Russia

E.S. Safron
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Contents

From the author

Introduction

Chapter 1: Fear and Horror: Making Sense of Literature

The genesis of horror in world literature

Domestic literature of horror

Horror literature of the 19th century

Horror literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Silver Age

Horror literature in the Soviet period

Horror literature of the new millennium

Problematic content of horror

Chapter 2: Genre Classification of Horror

History of and approaches to the study of horror

A brief history of the study of horror

Approaches to the study of horror

Intermedial approach

Horror as a literary genre

Genre content of horror

Techniques, composition and form of works of horror

Essential features of the genre

Classifications of the horror in literature

Subgenres of horror

Wird horror

Fantasy horror

Body horror

Folk horror

Splatter

Slasher

Psychological horror

Absurdist horror, horror of the absurd

Chapter 3: Composition of Russian Horror

Figurative system of horror

Horror monsters and their classification

Themes and motifs of horror

Positive characters

Peculiarities of chronotopic organization of horror

Mini-chronotopes: the territory of horror and chaos

Spatial location

Folklore code of domestic horror

Semantics of death

Female beginning

Igosha

Revenge

Bylichka

Magic fairy tale

Famous cultural images

Slavic folklore

Conclusion

Subject Index

 

UDC  821.161.1-9:398

DOI:  10.20339/978-5-905998-13-3-2025-5-142Sa

 

Reviewers:

O.Yu. Osmukhina, Ph.D., Professor, Head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature (N.P. Ogarev Mordovian State University);
M.A. Chernyak, Ph.D., Professor of the Department of Russian Literature (A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University).
 
 

Safron, E. A.

Horror literature in Russia. — Moscow : ALMAVEST, 2025. — 142 p. — (Library of the Journal “Philological Sciences”. Volume 6).

ISBN      978-5-905998-13-3.

The book by Doctor of Philological Sciences E.A. Safron is devoted to modern Russian horror. The genesis of the genre is considered, its classification is built, the peculiarities of chronotopic organization, figurative system, folklore elements embedded in the poetics of horror are studied.

The book is intended both for philologists studying mass literature and fans of horror who wish to evaluate their favorite genre from a scientific point of view.