@article{Burtseva_Burtsev_2019, title={The Fable Arrangement of John Ruskin‘s ‘The King of the Golden River’}, volume={3}, url={https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/4475}, DOI={10.18502/kss.v3i16.4475}, abstractNote={<p>The article presents a fable study of J. Ruskin’s novel ‘The King of the Golden River’ in accordance with the four-phase model of the literary text plot development. There sequentially come the separation phase, which corresponds to the description of the characters in the category of their values-based orientations; the partnership phase – meeting supernatural creatures, who become enemies for the older brothers and helpers for the youngest; challenges with moral duty; the deadly challenge phase – risky adventure and meeting with dying creatures; this phase is left uncompleted for the older brothers, but fir the youngest one it introduces the incorporation phase, which transforms the main character in their new internality. The study of John Ruskin‘s novel ‘The King of the Golden River’ based on the classic fable system lets consider the evolution of the genre of a literary fairytale and expound its ideological and literary value.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Keywords: fable; plot; novel; separation phase; partnership phase; liminal phase; incorporation phase; main character.</p&gt;}, number={16}, journal={KnE Social Sciences}, author={Burtseva, M A and Burtsev, A A}, year={2019}, month={Apr.}, pages={76–84} }