Representation of the image of the 1990s in modern young adult prose
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-65-3-76-83
Abstract
The article studies, from the perspective of past conceptuality, the modern young adult story based on the works of L. Romanovskaya “The Blind Chicken” and presents a version of the image reception, marked in the collective memory of the Russians in the “dashing nineties”. Our analysis of the work, introducing adolescents to the indicated historical era, shows that the author of the story focuses on verbal and visual signs of the time and everyday experience of the teenager of the 1990s, and the mentioned historical events do not determine the plot and problems of the work. The article suggests that the visual code of everyday life and the “media background” of the era are conceptualized in the story: the image of the “dashing nineties” becomes a symbolic embodiment of the hero’s maturity. The text of the story “The Blind Chicken” by Larisa Romanovskaya allows us to determine conceptually significant markers of the 1990s in the consciousness of a Russian person familiar with the era, those who survived it, that is, to reproduce the image of the 1990s. According to our observations, significant/iconic constructs of the image of the nineties are updated in a Russian person’s language consciousness, including moral (value) characteristics and elements of everyday culture that are reflected in the story “The Blind Chicken”. We propose to conditionally subsume them into semantic classes: 1) proper names from different spheres of life: politics, music, publishing projects, television, cinema, etc.; 2) geographical loci; 3) historical events; 4) realities (attributes) of time, including the realities of everyday culture; 5) language markers.
About the Author
Zh. Gaponova
Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Zhanna Konstantinovna Gaponova, Ph.D. in Philology
150000
66 Kotoroslnaya Emb.
Yaroslavl
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Gaponova Zh. Representation of the image of the 1990s in modern young adult prose. Philology and Culture. 2021;(3):76-83. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2021-65-3-76-83
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