Ternopol Tatiana Vyacheslavovna – independent researcher, Сandidate in Cultural Anthropology, ORCID: 0000-0002-8798-1723
The article analyzes the organization of literary space in J. Rowling’s fairy tale The Christmas Pig (2021). Using the methods of comparative and hermeneutic analysis, the author of the article proves that the structuring of the literary space in the analyzed text correlates with the stages of initiation: the Land of the Living, which the protagonist leaves to undergo initiation, Mislaid the liminal space, where the hero refuses his former status, and the Land of the Lost, where the hero’s initiation takes place. The artistic space of the Land of the Lost is linear, since its loci are connected spatially and hierarchically. The Wastes of the Unlamented, based on allusions to the Divine Comedy, is the geographical center of the Land of the Lost and the locus of initiation. The image of the Island of the Beloved, where the spiritual transformation of the protagonist takes place, plays the key role in revealing the idea of the work. The archetypal images in the structure of the literary space of the text are the image of the Land of the Lost and its individual loci (the three cities correlate with the three kingdoms of the underworld), images of the Wastes of the Unlamented and the Island of the Beloved, based on Christian images of hell and heaven. J. Rowling used literary space of the Land of the Lost as a means of expression of her ethical position proclaiming adherence to Christian values.
archetype; initiation; fairy tale; literary space; “other world” in a fairy tale; English children’s literature; works of J. Rowling; Land of the Lost.