ENGLISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: MODERN TRENDS IN THEMES AND NARRATIVE STRATEGIES
Keywords:
children’s literature, genre, naratology, narrative strategy, fantasy, fiction, mashup literature, fractured tales, themesAbstract
This research seeks to identify the main trends and themes in children’s literature, and determine how narrative devices and srategies are used in the modern literary works for children. In this paper, using analytical and synthetic methods of scientific investigation and the main principles from structural narratology, the specifics of children’s literature in the light of the genre classifications have been explored. These specifics are considered in terms of themes, motifs, genres and selection of literary characters. It has been found out that the subject of Children’s Literature is at the advantages of form, language and ways of presentation the artistic material. The author proves that contemporary children’s literature is characterized by facinating thematic richness and a great variety of layers. Texts peculiarities of the composition and narrative of literary works aimed at children show their simplicity and the dominance of the actions and characters in action. The emphasis is laid on the novelty of themes, such as violence, bulling, war, alienation, and the narrative techniques seeking to entertain children and educate them about the fundamentals of life, arouse their interest to reading.
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