title: On the poetics of mass literature (Alexander Bushkov’s dilogy A Knight from Nowhere and Flying Islands)
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metadata.value: Baranov, Dmitrii K.
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metadata.value: 2022-03-01T11:10:00Z
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metadata.value: 2022-03-01T11:10:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Baranov D. K. On the poetics of mass literature (Alexander Bushkov’s dilogy A Knight from Nowhere and Flying Islands). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (4): 640–660.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2021.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35308
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metadata.value: Mass literature can be analyzed not only as sociological material or as a background for first
  tier literature, but also as an independent phenomenon of the aesthetic sphere. Authors of
  commercially successful literature create more complex texts than their less successful competitors.
  However, the complexity of the structure of mass works lies not in the philosophical
  premise, not in the motive system and other aspects of the text that are important for classical
  literature, but in how specific techniques aimed at keeping the reader’s attention at every
  moment of time become more complex. In the article, the dilogy of Alexander Bushkov is
  analyzed from the point of view of language, the structure of the fantastic world, from the
  point of view of the ways of forming relationships between the depicted world and external
  reality, between the main character and the reader, as well as from the point of view of the plot
  and some popular compositional structures. Particular attention is paid to how the illusion of
  “autonomy” of the depicted world is created. The proposed analysis reveals that Bushkov in
  his novels not only reproduces features that are generally characteristic of the so-called heroic
  fantasy. He finds ways to complicate traditional techniques. Thus, it is demonstrated that successful
  mass authors have enough freedom within the framework of the genre canon. This
  could not have been detected using the typological approach, which is widespread in modern
  literary criticism.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mass literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander Bushkov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methods of text analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autonomy of the artistic world
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On the poetics of mass literature (Alexander Bushkov’s dilogy A Knight from Nowhere and Flying Islands)
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metadata.value: Article
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