Fantastic World Research Articles

Linguosemiotics of Proper Names in Novel ‘Night Watch’ by S. Lukyanenko

This article addresses the issue of linguosemiotic interpretation of proper names functioning in a literary text. The research aims to identify the linguosemiotic specificity of onyms through which the fantastic world of the work in the urban fantasy genre is constructed. The primary source of the study is S. Lukyanenko’s novel “Night Watch,” which served as the basis for the creation of the “Watch Universe” literary cycle. For the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the onomastic continuum (over 300 words) denoting the real and unreal world is conducted. A classification of the material forming the onomastic space of the text is proposed. The names of the characters in the work are examined: anthroponyms, mythoanthroponyms, neomythonyms. Contextual, componential, corpus-based, linguostylistic, and structurally-semiotic analysis methods are applied to establish the role of onyms in shaping artistic images, spatial organization of the work, and authorial idiolect. The decoding procedure of the ‘hidden meanings’ of onyms is carried out by utilizing techniques of etymological data semanticization. It is demonstrated that onomastic world modeling is implemented in the novel: character names serve as image-centric signs, anthropogroups categorize the Light and Dark as an East-West confrontation. Among the main functions of onyms are metatextual, allusive, and axiological.

Maladaptive fantasy predicts negatively distorted self and other mental representation: A consideration of child abuse from psycho/neuro/biological perspectives

Child abuse is a prevalent public health issue with one half of children worldwide experiencing some form of violence. Child abuse is associated with a myriad of impacts across the lifespan such as mental and physical illness, academic performance, and employment. For this reason, individual’s psychological functions such as emotional regulation, autobiographical memory and self, and psychological connection with others are changed by child abuse. However, to best of our knowledge, there is still much unknowns about the mechanism underlying these changes. In this article, we focusing on the relationships between fantasy and metacognition and its biological and neurological bases, and functional change of them caused by child abuse. Then, we also explain the effects of them for other psychological function in abused individual. In case of child abuse, there is suggests that children immerse themselves fantastic world in order to escape from the tragic experiences that are repeated on a daily living by the caregiver. In this process, functions that recognize the real world, such as metacognition, not functioning. Rather, there is consider that children refuse to develop metacognition in order to avoid realizing the truth of the real world. As results, it does not seem to develop child’s emotional regulative function such as metacognition. The experience of being continuously hurt by a caregiver and the image of being hurt are thought to change to maladaptive fantasy or autobiographical shame memory. Then, both maladaptive fantasy and autobiographical shame memory are lead to formed negatively distorted and unstable mental images of self and other. Finally, we discuss two potential new interventions such as picture book and breathing technique for abused children.

Exploring masculinities in Barbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig

"Barbie" (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written with Noah Baumbach, offers a satirical exploration of masculinity in the Barbie universe. This research paper employs Raewyn Connell's "Types of Masculinity" framework to analyze the male characters, particularly Ken, and their representation of different forms of masculinity within the fantastical world of Barbieland. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to uncover hidden beliefs and social commentary about masculinity expressed through language. The film presents a multifaceted exploration of masculinity, including hegemonic, complicit, subordinate, and marginalized types, challenging and reinforcing conventional gender expectations and contributing to a broader discourse on gender representation in contemporary cinema.
 
 Keywords: Barbie, contemporary cinema, critical discourse Analysis (CDA), gender representation, Greta Gerwig, masculinity, Raewyn Connell.

The Dark and Dry Well: Hidden Psychotic Disorders in Murakami Haruki’s Novel

The personal secrets of humans are just as though a deep and dark well. The peculiarities that occur within human beings not only attract numerous psychiatrists to unravel them but also captivate a Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami. In his novel entitled The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, he conveys subjective experiences through his main character. The novel tells the story of Toru Okada’s subconscious journey. It is where human memories connect with various ancient subconscious thoughts, strange illusions appear, and unheard voices manifest to ordinary humans. These are common indications of schizophrenia symptoms. The research reveals the challenge in identifying this syndrome, as affected individuals become detached from the “true reality.” Consequently, a more structured approach is deemed necessary to facilitate their reintegration. With the assistance of mythology, wherein this narrative serves as a collectively recognized storyline, those trapped within their fantastical worlds can effectively communicate and establish connections with those residing in the “true reality.

Rendering of genre-stylistic specificity when translating fantastic realities in science fiction (using the example of the translation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” ).

This article is devoted to the study of the problem of the transfer of genre-stylistic specificity in the translation of fantastic realities in science fiction. Using the example of the translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy "The Lord of the Rings", the author analyzes the methods and techniques of translation used to preserve the authenticity and magic of the original text. The article is based on a comprehensive analysis of translations of the work into different languages, taking into account the cultural and linguistic characteristics of each language. The author highlights key aspects, such as the translation of fantastic terms, names and concepts, as well as the transfer of the atmosphere and style of the book of J.R.R. Tolkien. The results of the study allow us to conclude about the importance of professionalism and cultural competence of the translator in the transmission of fantastic worlds, names of heroes, events, places where the events of a literary work develop, adaptation of the literary image for the Russian-speaking reader and provide practical recommendations for specialists or future specialists in the field of translation of literature and science fiction. The features of the transfer of genre-stylistic specificity in the translation of sci-fi in books are revealed, using the example of the translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy "The Lord of the Rings".

Art master Yulia Gusarova is an artist of multifaceted talent

The article contains materials about the work of St. Petersburg artist Yulia Vasilievna Gusarova, a master who creates works in different materials and techniques and has her own theme, manner and style. The purpose of the article is to determine the foundations and nature of creativity, to track the dynamics of the personal development of a hereditary artist. She is multi-faceted and is successfully realized in the art of painting, in mosaics, in ceramics, in textiles, in scientific and pedagogical activities. The main themes of her work: stories from the history of culture and art, travel impressions, the world of the sea and marine life, the fantastic world of the medieval "bestiary" and modern technology. The article presents examples of her works, describes their semantic content and artistic merits, notes theoretical and methodological-pedagogical aspects of the problems of art and art education. The materials of the article have novelty, because they are offered for publication for the first time. There was no scientific study of Y. Gusarova's creativity in domestic and foreign art criticism. The results and research methods in this article can be useful in art criticism for use in writing monographic works about the work of other artists, as well as for creating a complete picture of the features of the work of domestic ceramic artists of the XX - XXI centuries.

A Jungian Hero's Journey as Individuation Process in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: A Jungian Approach

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, exposes the concepts of individuation and self-improvement through archetypes based on the works of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav. The archetypes, according to Jung (1959), are all the symbolic components of the human psyche that we all carry inside us throughout life. Likewise, the novel represents a character’s development process through these archetypes and individuation in the form of shadows and personas. Considering the ideas and theory of Jung given above, it can be stated that in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, one can encounter the process of individuation in Harry, who undergoes a complete change in his personality, entering into a quest or a journey to the fantastic world, where he develops and improves his individuation for maturity and self-realization through recognizing, confronting, and assimilating the representations of shadows and persona in his psyche. This study, therefore, aims at revealing the archetypes that guide Harry’s journey throughout the stages of the Jungian hero's journey, as well as his embarkation on a quest of self-discovery and personal growth. Accordingly, in this study, as the protagonist of the novel, Harry’s heroic journey for seeking knowledge is studied and analysed in terms of Carl Jung’s theory of archetypes and individuation, by revealing that the hero's character, Harry, improves towards individuation by recognizing, confronting, and assimilating the representations of the shadow and persona in his psyche in the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Aesthetics of Non-Conformism in Design Of Stage Space by Daniel Lider (1965–1975)

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the manifestation of non-conformism tendencies in the work of Danylo Lider, People's Artist of Ukraine, chief artist of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Kyiv in 1965–1975. Research methodology. The article uses a typological method (to identify the peculiarities of non-conformism in accordance with the specifics of stage design); a functional and typological method, which helped to identify the specifics of non-conformism in D. Lider's plastic solutions; a method of art historical, figurative and stylistic, formal and stylistic analysis of the design of the stage space of performances developed by D. Lider in 1965-1975. Scientific novelty. Non-conformism as a method of artistic thinking in the context of the specifics of the design of theatrical art of Ukraine in the 1960s-1990s is studied. The specificity of the manifestation of non-conformist tendencies in the work of one of the leading Ukrainian theatre artists D. Lider is revealed. Based on the analysis of architectonic elements and features of the visual image of the stage space of the plays "Diary Page" by O. Korniichuk (directed by V. Lyzogub, 1965), "Yaroslav the Wise" by I. Kocherha (directed by B. Meshkis, 1970), "The Time of Yellow Leaves" by O. Kolomiiets (1973), "Hello, Pripiat!" by O. Levada (directed by S. Smiian, 1974) revealed the characteristic features of Danylo Lider's non-conformism. Conclusions. The non-conformism of national theatre artists, in particular D. Lider, has a number of specific features that distinguish it from non-conformism in literature and the visual arts. The artist expresses a huge ideological, spiritual and artistic protest by means of multidimentional metaphorisation. Using myths and the tendency of his own consciousness to deep philosophical mystification of reality, he creates amazing, fantastic worlds within a given stage space. A peculiar reaction to the limitations of positivist aesthetics and naturalistic tendencies of socialist realism in D. Lider's work was the play of metaphors and associations. Non-conformism in the design of D. Lider's stage art is manifested in a complex synthesis of the master's philosophical, ideologicall and aesthetic concepts with the actual searches for new artistic forms. Its characteristic features are: a tendency to an highly complex, symbolic portrayal of one's own ideas and impressions, to a sophisticated coding of artistic means; immersion in the spiritual world and unusual forms of expression of new psychological material obtained as a result of comprehending the literary source of the stage production; creation of a figurative and plastic structure of the performance that goes far beyond the dramatic material; destruction of the canons of traditional artistic design in the style of socialist realism in search of a new reality; emphasis on the nuances of the deep shades of human feelings. Key words: non-conformism, stage space design, D. Lider, architectonics, metaphorisation, symbolic representation.

The Usefulness of Uselessness: Short Stories by José Eduardo Agualusa

Estranhões & Bizarrocos: Stories for angels to sleep is a children’s and young adult book authored in Portuguese by Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa. This paper posits that the book’s constituent short stories, initially intended for children, bear potential appeal to readers across all age brackets, situating themselves within the realm of ‘crossover fiction’. The book’s title resonates with the semantic sphere of the strange or peculiar. Within the narratives, ‘the stranger’ correlates with the child's fantastical world, but also aligns with the ‘foreigner’ inherent within these short stories. To unpack the representations of this ‘bizarre’ Other depicted in the stories, we employ literary imagology. This approach reveals the role of images curated by the narrators in constructing the implicit theme shared across the book’s 10 short stories. Lastly, the work provokes readers to ponder the value of seemingly usefulness things and situations—a reflection that carries its own meta-literary significance.

Gameplayowe transgresje w grach cyfrowych


 
 
 The latest and increasingly sophisticated digital simulations, often set in fantastical worlds, have become like laboratories in which players/ audiences can test their knowledge of culture, their ethical beliefs, interpretive skills, and anthropological imaginations. The article looks at games not just through the lens of their programmed poetics, but rather as laboratories in which experimentation becomes one of the elements of play, and gameplay touches the essence of the game – the activity, which is defined as dynamic competition within an adopted convention. One example of such experimentation is the transgressive way of conducting gameplay. However, creating a detailed typology of all possible transgressive gameplay is clearly not feasible, especially when taking into account accidental situations, such as when a player exploits a loophole or error in the programmed process without realizing that they are intentionally bypassing solutions designed by the creators. Nonetheless, intentional actions can be characterized in terms of three basic aspects – ingression (e.g., interference with computer programs), progression (e.g., fastrun, bypassing, etc.), and regression (transpositions, refunctionalizations, etc.). They concern both evidence of specific intentions and reveal ways of breaking rules, introducing one’s own rules, or forcing one’s own gameplay style.
 
 

Unworlding in Nameless


 World-building has thrived as a new field for scholars interested in fantastic fiction since it allows for new insights into how imaginary worlds are actualized other than simply the formal devices that render fantastical worlds different from non-fantastical ones. However, there are things that cannot be told and there are things that should not be told — these are the reaches that much weird fiction likes to explore. In the vocabulary of world-building, we would say that readers are never given access to a fully coherent and consistent imaginary world. The process of Nameless is what I identify as the process of unworlding — when the imaginary world is filled with contradictions and impossibilities and break any attempt at constructing a system or structure.

Ephemeral Sentimentality in Gaspar Noé’s Creative World

The article focuses on the imaginary, yet somewhat real world created by one of the most contradictory filmmakers of our time, Gaspar Noé. Noé is a French director of Argentinean origin, born in 1963. His works received both admiration and criticism over the past decades. He is criticized for the brutality of any episodes and motifs, yet adored by those who can appreciate the hidden sentimental overtone of his films. The emotional impact of his works is ephemeral and difficult to grasp at once, yet it lingers on. The initial episodes of the “Irreversible” can cause nausea, but the latter ones (edited in an inverted chronological sequence) possess an inevitable hint of vain hopes of happiness. Gaspar Noé labeled his next film, “Enter the Void,” a “psychedelic melodrama.”We traced this ephemeral sentimental mood from the earliest short “Carne” (1991) to the director’s releases of 2018–2019. All the forbidden topics (not so much forbidden in the contemporary cinema) appear in Gaspar Noé’s films: excessive violence depicted too realistically, drugs of various kinds, soft porn, even hardcore (in “Love”). One can see the incest taboo, regarded by anthropologists to be the core of culture, suspended here (not for the first time in the contemporary cinema as well). Nevertheless, the sentimental aura dissolves it all.The world of Gaspar Noé’s creative work is dangerous and unpredictable. You can take a wrong turn in the city, be raped and cruelly murdered. You can enter “The Void” (a bar named so) and be accidentally shot. And then you wonder if the Tibetan Book of Dead gives you a chance of return, in the womb of your own sister, as a child of your friend.A fantastic world, but much too keen to the real one. In a true fantasy, “Game of Thrones” for example, we find as much violence, rape, incest, burning a witch alive (compare the latest Noé’s production, Lux Aeterna). But you do not feel it. Fantasy is a safe medium of releasing our primitive fears and drives in a suspended mode: it never was so, the fake medieval world of George Martin does not exist. The world of Gaspar Noé exists, it is crammed into modern cities and waits around the corner.Here we need the aid of Lacanian psychoanalysis. To interpret the difference, one must take into account Jacques Lacan’s concept of “the Real”. If the Real (not the outer reality, but Real inside the human being) comes too close to us, we feel fear and anxiety. If the Real crosses the Imaginary (vain hopes for happiness, for example), such an intersection provokes hatred. If the Real crosses the Symbolic, it provokes a vigorous desire not to know. Those who blame Gaspar Noé feel this desire. Those who appreciate him try to encompass the polarity of abomination and sentimentalism in the real world.

Fabricant, It's What's for Dinner: Tracing Industrialized Slaughter through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle , Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties , and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

Abstract: In the contemporary epic novel Cloud Atlas (2004), David Mitchell creates fictive worlds spanning hundreds of years to reveal the consequences of industrial capitalism on a global scale. The dystopic near-future section of the novel, where most of the earth's natural resources have been obliterated due to mass nuclear explosions, explores a consumer class society fueled by late-stage capitalism that fabricates nature to survive—even if that means recycling the human body. Sonmi-451, an Asian female clone, narrates the story of a nightmarish fantastical world where present-day factory farming practices manufacture human bodies instead of animals. In this paper, I draw parallels from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974) to trace how slaughter has been perceived in relation to dystopian imaginings of meat production.

Cyber Notary as A Mean of Indonesian Economic Law Development

This paper tries to show how Indonesian economic law has evolved via the emergence of the cyber notary idea. Notaries engage in various everyday tasks and activities in the fantastic world development, such as giving the clients the finest service possible and impacting the economy. According to the law, notaries are required to be able to help and support anyone who requires genuine written documentation of legal situations, events, or activities. This study employs qualitative approaches and descriptive analysis. Additionally, researchers are interested in the phenomenon that examines the idea of a cyber notary as a way to advance Indonesian commercial law. Qualitative research aims to conduct extremely thorough investigations that examine the research's findings in great detail. Both primary data and secondary data are employed as sources of information. The findings demonstrate that cyber notary adds value to electronic documents by legalising them, for example, in addition to digitising notarial operations. However, because many aspects need to be ready, its implementation will take some time. Article 1868 of the Indonesian Civil Code stipulates that a genuine deed is a deed in a certain form that has been prescribed by law and is made before a public authority.

PATHS TAKEN FOR MATHEMATICAL ARGUMENTATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF MATHEMATICAL POEMS

Literary writing is the democratic form of inclusion and development of student aptitude, in which everyone can participate, it is a challenging and stimulating pedagogical activity, in addition to enhancing the development of skills and competencies for meaningful and reflective learning with Mathematics . The school is a space for this “habit-forming force, as it provides those who are directly or indirectly subjected to its influence, not so much particular and particularized thought schemes, but a general disposition that generates particular schemes capable of being applied in different contexts”. different fields of thought and action which can be called cultivated habutus”. (Bourdieu, 2005, p.211). The objective of the article is to present reports of experience of encouraging literary writing with Mathematics with students of the 9th year of Elementary School, stimulating in them the taste for reading and writing with the culture of reading more and writing better, turning to the Mathematics area. The present research also reflects on the importance of the creative didactic transposition of Mathematics contents in the school environment and emphasizes the need for teachers to be equipped to build this knowledge in an innovative and integrated way to the students’ daily lives. in a private teaching unit in Nossa Senhora da Glória, Sergipe, specifically with 9th grade students. The applied methodology is Brainstorming. This technique consists of showing that the student can create a list of ideas on a topic, pointing out everything they can think of on a given topic or subject, transporting it to the types of literary genres: poetry, short stories, chronicles, associating these categories for the universe of Mathematics such as: numbers, geometry, magnitudes and measurements, algebra and statistics. Using mathematical concepts and language for the formulation and writing of texts. Thus contributing for the student to think, do differently, lead to the fantastic world of mathematical knowledge.

Vacío vital, metanarración y fantasía. Los cuentos de "El elefante desaparece" de Murakami

"The book The Elephant Vanishes includes many of the first stories written by Haruki Murakami. As for the common themes found in these seventeen stories, it should be pointed out that they present a gallery of characters who either find themselves in an existential point which determines a turn in their lives, or feel an inner gap, or are marked by a hidden force that afflicts them, or are affected by what might have happened but did not. As discernible elements in the stories, the inclusion of metanarrative elements, the emergence of the fantastic world, the use of humour in certain passages and the appearance of the autobiographical narrator are worthy of mention."

Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World ed. by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Reviewed by: Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World ed. by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Emily Lauer (bio) Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World. Edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. The essay collection Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World is a broad-ranging and necessary addition to the ever-evolving field of Harry Potter scholarship. As the editors mention in their introduction to the book, they were motivated by the need to explore "the contradiction that lies at the heart of the Potter series: an author and a world that make the tacit promise of fantastic escape for the marginalized, all while the author inscribes exclu sion and bigotry within the wizarding world—as well as with her public words" (9). The contributors to Harry Potter and the Other employ a breadth of approaches to the vast transmedia landscape of the world of Harry Potter. The collection ranges widely: from analysis of specific fan artists' race-bending illustrations of characters, to a pedagogical essay about how one professor of color uses the Potter series in a college composition course, to an examination of trans-exclusionary themes in the Harry Potter books predating Rowling's public anti-trans stance, to race issues in the film and theater casting of expansions of the Harry Potter series beyond the original six books. The editors Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas corral these various perspectives on the "other" in the Harry Potter series into three main sections. The eight essays in part 1, "Race, Gender, and Gender Identity," address how encounters with the other are framed and presented in various texts of the wizarding world, and how fans have reacted. In this section, I found the essay "The Magical (Racial) Contract: Understanding the Wizarding World of Harry Potter through Whiteness" by Christina M. Chica to be a particular standout. Chica posits that in the world of Harry Potter, "wizardness" can be seen as an analog of whiteness. Explaining how "Wizardness (Whiteness) is maintained by property and power over others" (72), Chica details the ways in which the privileges of "wizardness" have political, moral, and legal ramifications in the series. Her essay [End Page 420] has changed the way I think about the functions of magic in the series. Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Other, "#BlackHermione," is much smaller and more focused. The three essays in this section explore the varied fan reactions to the casting of a Black actress to play Hermione in the stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and analyze J. K. Rowling's tweet endorsing the casting decision. In this section, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's chapter "Hermione is Black: Harry Potter and the Crisis of Infinite Dark Fantastic Worlds" describes her own experiences as a Black woman in the Harry Potter fandom of previous decades, and provides a useful framework for how fans and scholars are expected to "reconcile multiple storyworlds" (194). Thomas notes that this chapter is a "truncated version of the original" sixth chapter of her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to Hunger Games (201). In part 3, "History, Pedagogy, and Liberation," the authors of the four essays that comprise this section look at issues of justice within the book series and also in the way the series is used in our world. The final essay of the collection, "The Failed Wizard Justice System: Race and Access to Justice in Harry Potter" by Charles D. Wilson, is a highlight of the collection and a strong finish. Wilson closely examines the way the legal system is portrayed in the Ministry of Magic in the series in order to make clear its various shortcomings. He points out that "this is more of world-building exercise than a focal point of the series" (288), succinctly voicing an underlying issue of so many of the essays in this collection. Wilson's essay, through its critique of the institutions of the wizarding world, clarifies how inconsistent it is in its policies...

SLAVIC SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY IN INTERFACULTY COURSES AT LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY (2013-2020)

The article shares the author’s experience of teaching interfaculty science fiction (sci-fi) and fantasy lecture courses at Lomono-sov Moscow State University, attended by students of all departments. In the period between 2013 and 2020 six such courses were taught, the number of students varying from 250 to 450 each. The courses comprised sci-fi and fantasy theory, sci-fi and fantasy status among other types of fiction narratives, the main stages of Russian and foreign sci-fi and fantasy history, the creative activity of outstanding sci-fi and fantasy writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Apart from the Russian, West European and North American writers, works by East European (Slavic) authors were thoroughly examined. The article contains neat observations on the degree of Slavic sci-fi and fantasy writers’ popularity among young Russian readers and on the most inter-esting fiction texts for students. The data obtained through the analysis of the students’ assignments comprise their answers to the questions about their favorite sci-fi writers and books lists, on the reasons of certain fantastic worlds’ attractiveness, on their preferences in sci-fi or fantasy. The article also clarifies the principles of writers and their works selection for the lecture cours-es, it characterizes the creative activity of Slavic writers and reveals the interrelation between Slavic writers’ fiction works and the general scope of problems discussed at interfaculty sci-fi lecture courses. Taking into account the students’ interest in works by Karel Čapek, Stanislaw Lem, Andrzej Sapkowski and other Slavic authors, we suggest some ideas about the potential structure of a specialized lecture course focusing on science fiction and fantasy in Slavic countries.

A Design Studio on Fantastic Space

This essay investigates the creative approaches of how body–space relations can be enhanced in a design studio through the exploration of fantastic spaces. ‘Fantastic’ is defined as an ‘open work’ with reference to modern literature and a ‘fantastic space’ as an inventive ground that is neither real nor unreal, standing as a paraxial region. This essay analyses a first-year design studio on Fantastic Space; it considers how the content was explored by students, what they designed, and the diverse design approaches that emerged. In the studio, students analysed the spaces and characters of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film, Spirited Away (2001) and reassembled the narrative of the animation by using architectural tools to prepare two- and three-dimensional representations of their designs. Focusing on body–space relations, the studio employed a critical approach to anthropocentrism and discussed human and non-human agencies within a body–space context. In its pursuit to challenge traditional dynamics of spatial representation, the project encouraged creating experimental works inspired by the unlimited potential interpretations of Miyazaki’s fantastic world. A content analysis of the designs of 156 students using both qualitative and quantitative methods was applied to analyse students’ conceptual and spatialproductions. The analysis reveals three key design strategies to categorise the students’ projects: character-based, space-based, and story-based approaches. The unique and overlapping qualities of these approaches were determined by reviewing the time–space and body–space relationships represented in the students’ projects. In this way, the imaginative, diverse re-imaginings of their designs reveal the value of using fantastic spaces to encourage high student engagement and creative studio results.

UNIVERSAL COMPONENTS OF SYMBOLIC IMAGERY IN NARRATIVE OF UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH FAIRY TALES

Introduction. The paper focuses on the study of fairy-tale narrative with special interest to the universal components of the folk tale symbolic imagery. Semiotic (symbolic) facet in the Ukrainian and English fairy-tales’ narrative analysis contributes to further investigations inthe field of linguosemiotic, linguocultural, literary-semiotic and other cross-disciplinary studies.Purpose. The paper aims at revealing of common archetypes or prototypes of the symbolic images and motifs in Ukrainian and English fairy tales.To achieve this purpose we have applied the integrative methodology based on methods of contextual interpretation analysis, intertextual analysis, elements of the method of comparative analysis of Ukrainian and English fairy tales, as well as elements of the methods of archetypaland narrative analyses.The major results refer to the identifying the similar symbolic properties of the Ukrainian and English fairy tales. We have revealed and described the most widespread symbolic images: a symbol of forest as a boundary space between fantastic worlds and, at the same time, a netherworld, associated with the universal motif of initiation; a symbol of tree manifested bythe symbolic images of oak and apple tree acting both as the character’s assistant and mediator between the worlds; an ambivalent symbol of apple involving the archetypal motifs of eternal youth, earthly desires, temptations and transition to another world. Next recurrent motif is thepersonage’s transformation into an animal or a bird, metaphorically manifesting the archetypal idea of ancestors’ reincarnation in totems. The motif of marriage on animals is no less common in tales together with the motive of the totem assistant. Both the bird and the horse belongto universal mythologems, the former associating with a symbol of the soul and metonymically performing a function of the content of the soul, and the latter acting as an assistant and a mediator between the worlds. The archetypal symbols of fire and water are symbolically reinterpretedin fairy tales as the border between the worlds, manifestations of the idea of good and evil, symbols of purification as well as in paradigms of ambivalent images appearing as the metonymicmanifestations of the basic symbols.Conclusion. Constant images of fairy tales symbolize the unity of man with nature, with animals and birds, elements of being. The fairy-tale symbols appear as a system organization, the paradigm of images, with numerous metonymic and metaphorical derivatives from basic symbols, as well as the syntagmatic symbolic links between archetypal symbols and associatedsymbolic motifs.