GENRE MEMORY IN ANGELA CARTER’S RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE BLUEBEARD PLOT

Abstract

The paper aims at disclosing the mechanism of genre memory, its ability to retain some persistent archaic elements due to their ongoing updating and renewal. The modern short story discussed appeals to the Bluebeard plot and is intended for grown ups. With scholars' inference about initiation rite as the underpinning of fairy tales and their symbolism hidden from children's eyes who are the common target audience now, the reinterpretation for adult readers is viewed as making symbolic truth less implicit, lifting of sexual taboos, and explication of inherent latent motifs related to initiation into adulthood.

Keywords

• genre memory
• re-interpretation
• Bluebeard
• initiation
• память жанра
• реинтерпретация
• Синяя Борода
• инициация