Reflection of Humanism`s Crisis in the Soviet and British Fairy-Tale Literature in the Period of the Second World War

Student: Nikitina Irina

Supervisor: Ilya Kukulin

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

Problem of humanism crisis is considered during the war period with special attention and due to some specifies of genre there appears interest to the literary fairy-tales. This study analyses the case of fairy-tale prose written during the Second World war period in USSR and Great Britain on examples of work British authors Tolkien and Lewis and Soviet – Shwartz, Gabbe, Marshak and Chukovski. Based on the discourse and comparative analysis the research will find reasons and contexts of high attention to such fairy-tales during the war and features of use it as a tool for discussing moral and humanistic questions, also developed anti-totalitarian motives. The structure of the work includes theoretical part with analyzing the problem of humanism crisis and its pre-history in 20th century and practical part with analysis of cases: certain books of the considered topic.

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