Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: The Genre Topoi of the Mass Literature in the Amur Writers Works at the Turn of XX-XXI Centuries

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Genre Topoi of the Mass Literature in the Amur Writers Works at the Turn of XX-XXI Centuries

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (5)
Authors: Kireeva, Natalia V.
Contact information: Kireeva, Natalia V.: Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University 104 Lenina Str., Blagoveschensk, 675000, Russia;
Keywords: genre topos; mass literature; Amur literature; local literary history; the turn of 20th-21st centuries
Abstract: The article examines the works of the Amur region contemporary writers, who use the toposes of such popular genres as detective, science fiction, adventure, sentimental melodrama, romance novel and historical fiction. Using typological, comparative and historical-literary research methods the author shows that the appeal of the Amur writers to the topos of the mass literature genres has been typical of the whole existence of this local literature and explores the novels of the early 20th century and Soviet literature. However, at the turn of 20th-21st centuries, the attention to the topos of the mass literature genres became more intense. Due to this Amur writers update the structure of their texts, expanding readership, using new channels of books’ distribution, seeking recognition from literary institutions
Pages: 685-700
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/32513