THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GENRE OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN MODERN LITERATURE (D. BYKOV, L. PETRUSHEVSKAYA)

Article is devoted to the study of the transformation of the genre of the Christmas story in modern literature. The article analyzes the influence of the classic Christmas story by Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl on the structure of modern texts of mass and elite literature. (D. Bykov The Little Match Girl gives a light, L. Petrushevskaya Black Coat). The subject of the study is a strategy of rethinking, recoding the source of the original content in the fabric of a new product. The structural and semiotic analysis of the texts revealed some tricks to updates-the-genre: filling-up with the new semantics, complicating a genre model of a Christmas story. Analysis showed that referring to the genre of a Christmas story, modern authors have different purposes, using different artistic strategies and methods. Some of them tend to reproduce the canon, appealing to the reader's memory (D. Bykov). Others develop the genre of a Christmas story, enriching it with new structural elements, interlacing it with other genres (L. Petrushevskaya).