Terminological system of alternative history genre in fiction

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Terminological system of alternative history genre in fiction. The article’s goal is to determine the identity and the way of genre andstylistic features of the alternative history genre forming the special complex of terms and this finding means article’s novelty. Functioning in the sphere of the European myth in the arts area of post-modern novel in Ukraine and in foreign literatures, creating a new world view sources, the basic literary terminology get the new layers of terms in and use to use them in the renewed profile. Genre scheme of historical novel successfully works for alternative history writings. Alternative emerged in the historicism field, that shifted history. Methods of research. For analyzing and dividing the terminology genesis is used statistic and descriptive method, for the classification terminological items is used comparative method and analytical principle. Conclusions. After the basic research It could be concluded, that the plurality and disorder of the terminology base of the discourse in alternative literature is visible as in European, American, Canadian, so in Ukrainian modern fiction. J. Klyut includes an American alternative to science fiction, S. Sobolev indicates the alternative history as the fed-bek of the historical novel, N. Ovcharenko is inclined to describe the alternative history of one of the childish period in post-colonial studies, E. Thompson enumerates to an alternative historical hierarchy, which artwork of the historical plan does, A. Niamtsu is convinced that the quintessence of the genre of fantasy becomes historical alternate story. Such a combination of definitions tern to specific of the genological genesis of alternative history terminology. It creates a series of “hyperlinksˮ on the terminology of each of the above genres, which, in turn, makes misunderstandings and repetitions: krypto-history is approximately equal to the concept of pseudo-history and anti-history.