Rethinking of Fratricide Myth in Fiction Text

Authors

  • Владимир Ильич Карасик Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University

Abstract

Vladimir I. Karasik (Volgograd, Russian Federation)

The article deals with a mythological plot “fratricide” treated as the embodiment of archetypical sin – murder of one’s kin. Associative extension of this crime and its participants is described. Main lines of murderer’s behavior are grudge and uncontrolled fury caused by envy and strife for primacy. Fratricide was repeatedly represented in fiction texts. Various approaches to this plot are analyzed as presented in prose, drama and poetry by S. Gessner, S. Coleridge, G.B. Byron, A. Tarkovsky, R. Shusterovich, G. Kanevsky, A. Barkova, J. Minot, A. Zheleznov. Several vectors of fratricide rethinking are traced including devil’s design, revolt against unjust world order, sacrifice, and incomprehensibility of fate. Metaphorically, this subject plot is exemplified in civil war scripts or in a broader sense in tragic conflict of close friends.

Key words: myth, remythologization, subject plot, fratricide, fiction text.

DOI 10.23683/1995-0640-2017-3-30-44

Author Biography

Владимир Ильич Карасик, Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University

Vladimir I. Karasik – Ph.D. of philology, English philology department, professor and the head of the chair. Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University.

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Карасик, В. И. (2017). Rethinking of Fratricide Myth in Fiction Text. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (3), 30–44. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1051

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No. 3 (2017)

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LINGUISTICS

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