Perzeke M. The topos of "other kingdom" in Russian literary tale of the first half of XIXth century.

The object embraces literary tales of Russian writers of the first half of the 19th century. The purpose is the understanding of historic and literary reasons as well as poetic mechanisms of the efficiency in developing Russian literary tale of the first half of the 19th century by means of advanced study of the topos of "other kingdom" as the most important typological component of its genre structure. The methods used are historical and literary, comparative typological, structural typological and biographical. The thesis is devoted to the investigation of the topos of "other kingdom", its genre genesis, semantic features, conceptual and poetic originality as well as functions in the genre structure of Russian literary tale of the first half of the 19th century. In the context of the research into Russian literary tale in the stated and the following periods, the topos of "other kingdom" has been chosen to be the subject of the independent research for the first time, and has been viewed as the main genre-forming component embodying its world-attitude nature which comes out as the key to the understanding the specificity of genre philosophy and tale poetics. The sphere is educational process.