Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / “The Oera Linda Book” and “The Snow Queen”: Two Destinies of One Myth

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (1)
Authors
Reznikova, Ksenia V.
Contact information
Reznikova, Ksenia V.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia;E-mail:
Keywords
constructivism; globalization; myth; H.F. Wirth; “The Snow Queen”
Abstract

This article features globalization in its two forms: natural globalization and artificial globalization. The need of natural globalization becomes more obvious taking into account the growth of challenge to the humankind. Artificial globalization nowadays is provided by westernization. Influence of globalization is more obvious at the mental than at the physical level, construction of the historical past and its mythologization played major roles in the course of globalization. Different relations between ideology and myth can be traced on the example of the destinies of two works, in which almost the same idea of the world order is represented. These are “The Oera Linda Book” and “The Snow Queen”. As a part of the study, seven invariants of the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen were analyzed. The carried-out analysis is based on a hypothesis that artificial globalization influences mythology of certain cultures, distorting it for own needs, resorting to different methods for different forms of the myth representation. So, myths in their pure form, demanded by the adult representatives of culture, are subjected to criticism, they are charged of falsification. The ultimate goal of such an influence is to bury the myth in oblivion as false. The myth that is represented in the reduced art form for children’s audience has the changed plot basis and in this new form it is subjected to maximum replication to substitute the original version in a period of time

Pages
149-174
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16623

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