"Alternative history" as a factor of the genre transformation in the modern novel

Authors

  • Ольга Вікторівна Мохначова Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical Institute, SIHE “Kryvyi Rih National University”

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v5i0.1238

Keywords:

«alternate story», «uchronia», canonical myth, reconstruction of history, alternate biography

Abstract

The article gives a broad outline of the notion «the alternate story», the reasons of in creasing its influence in postmodern art and a variety of its functions in different types of fiction prose ranging from fantasy and myth to biographical and historical assumption.

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Author Biography

Ольга Вікторівна Мохначова, Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical Institute, SIHE “Kryvyi Rih National University”

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor

Published

2015-06-25

How to Cite

Мохначова, О. В. (2015). "Alternative history" as a factor of the genre transformation in the modern novel. Literatures of the World: Poetics, Mentality and Spirituality, 5, 112–125. https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v5i0.1238

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Section

Poetics of world literatures