Abstract
The article deals with identification of genre principles and how E. H. Porter`s individuality impacts on some genre transformations in her novels. The object of investigation is E. H. Porter`s prose. The aim of this study is in concordance of E. H. Porter`s overall values to her originative specification. The tasks of investigation are: to summarize researches in a genre theory; to distinguish E. Porter`s complex novelistic achievements; to determine aesthetic factors which impact on writer`s creative way; to find out the complex of the genre dominants in E. H. Porter`s creation; to analyze the literary time, space and narrative means in the novels. The article of great help to analyze and interpret E. H. Porter`s novelistic achievements. This article reports the results of the E. Porter`s genre specification as a subject of investigation. The article is of interest to researching genre transformation as an effective instrument of literary creation. The only two novels are translated into Ukrainian although E. H. Porter`s literary heritage includes fifteen novels and the cycle of “Short Stories”. Before earning her renown as a children’s author, Porter was a successful short-story writer, having over two-hundred stories published in various women’s journals of the era, some under an early pseudonym “Eleanor Stewart”. Further studying of this this issue has the following perspectives: classification of genre transformations in the legacy of E. H. Porter and determining their value for further development of the genre “Novel”, “Short Story” in the world literature.
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