Metaphoric national accents in the novels by Ransom Riggs and Mariam Petrosyan (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”–“The House in Which...”)

• Main Author: Andrey Gurduz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial AAR 2021-08-01
• Series: Laplage em Revista
• Subjects: Fantasy; Concept; Intertext; National Memory; Transgenerational transmission
• Online Access: https://laplageemrevista.editorialaar.com/index.php/lpg1/article/view/1319

The article provides an aspectual literary assessment of R. Riggs's pentalogy and M. Petrosyan’s trilogy (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”–“The House in Which...”) based on a comparative analysis of the works. Demonstrates the relevance of the fantasy genre in modern literary study, in particular, the strengthening of myth-making processes and the corresponding growth of influence of the fantasy component in the literary and artistic process of the first decades of the XXI century. It is shown that urban fantasy as one of the most productive varieties of the genre subtly reflects the realities and prospects of the “second nature” of the contemporary and receives an increasing ideological load in the XXI century. For the first time the main configurative fantasy parameters of the cycle in the context of the crisis of mythmaking of the early XXI century are defined.