Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the image of the mermaid in Danish romantic prose of the first half of the XIX century. In accordance with this goal, the following tasks are formulated: to study the elements of romantic poetics that make up the structure of the image of the mermaid; consider the features of the functioning of the image of the mermaid in the Danish literature of the romantic era. To achieve this goal, we used descriptive, comparative, and contextual analysis methods. The image of the little Mermaid in the Danish romantic tradition combines the functioning of mythological, romantic and individual author's motives, the value space of the fairy tale by G. H. Andersen is built in accordance with Christian axiology.

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