Ischenko N. Myth-creating in the War Discourse: the National Myth of the Crimean War of 1853-1856 in the British Literature of the Second Half of the XXth Century.

The thesis investigates the role of literature in the mechanism of the national war neo-myths forming and examines the phenomenon of literary myth-creating in the war discourse. The investigation of the war discourse myth-creating potential is concretized with the identification of the specific myth-forming factors in the British literary discourse of the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and added with the analysis of the war archetype concepts functioning in the British literature of the second half of the XX century. The author defines the war texts "mythoginicity" and researches mythogenesis of the popular Crimean myths that gives an opportunity to interpret the war literature as an object and a subject of the myth-creating process. The mechanism of the myth-creating is typologically similar in every war discourse but it is adjusted in the certain socio-cultural space.