Slavonic Fantasy: To the Problem of Genre Genesis
The article considers the genesis problem of the one of the modern mass literature genres - the Slavonic fantasy. As resources the authors review the fantasy novels by Yu. Nikitin, M. Semyonova, E. Dvoretskaya, N. Bakhroshin. The results of the analysis allow as to make the following conclusions: the genetic link of Slavonic fantasy was revealed not only with literary traditions, but also with outer-aesthetic (political, social, publicist) discourse about national identity, which is very actively developing in modern Russia.