2020 # 5 (43)
Kovtun E.
“Сanon” and Intertext of “Post-Mortem Being” in Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 20th–21st centuries: Problematic and Functional Aspects
Abstract
In the first of our two articles combined by the common theme Universe of Afterlife (UA) we have postulated the creation of literary “canon” for describinge the existence of human after death by domestic and foreign writers of fantasy of the 20th–21st centures and also we considered a number of baseline features of intertext associated with the mentioned canon: location of UA in relation to the realm familiar for readers, presence of the borderline and description of the transfer between UA and our reality, common image of guide or companion in the afterlife realm etc. In this publication our task is to analyze most important images and characters as well as story motives and compositional models related to UA and, above all, the functionality of the AU vision, i.e. review of authors’ goals solvable with the help of fictional universes created on the basis of the hypothesis of afterlife.
Key words
fantasy, afterlife, universe of afterlife