ARCHETYPE OF THE ROAD AND ITS EMBODIMENT IN E. AIPIN’S NOVEL “KHANTY OR THE MORNING DAWN STAR”

Author:

E. N. Rimareva,
Postgraduate Student,
Faculty of Humanities, Nizhnevartovsk State University
3b Mira st., Nizhnevartovsk, 628600, Russian Federation ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-5803
e-mail: Rymareva-EN@te.ru

Abstract:

Introduction. The paper explores the manifestation of the road archetype in Eremei Aipin’s novel “Khanty or the Morning Dawn Star”, the novel’s mythological and archaic motives, influenced by the collec-tive unconscious of the Khanty mythology to which the author belongs. The paper aims to conceptualize the role of the road archetype in the novel.
Materials and Methods. The typological, comparative-historical, cultural and mythological analysis as well as M. Bakhtin’s theory of chronotope are used to analyze the data.
Results. Time-space road archetype is one of the sustained literary archetypes. It has many interpreta-tions in Aipin’s novel, serves as the plot foundation and links different time-space planes. The implementa-tion of the road archetype in the novel is identical to the Khanty mythology.
Conclusions. It can be concluded that the road archetype in Eremei Aipin’s novel “Khanty or the Morning Dawn Star” is conditioned by the author’s national world outlook and is archetypical.

Keywords:

Archetype, road, chronotope, archetypical image, archetypical motive, mythology.