Fantasy Mythologemes as the Elements of the Fantasy Picture of the World (on the Example of J.K. Rowling's Novels)
The article deals with the fantasy and mythological pictures of the world. «Picture of the world» is the notion that reflects the way a person accepts the world around him/her. It is influenced by culture and society and appears in language. The fantasy and mythological pictures of the world have some features in common. They both are the result of human intellectual activity and they appeal to fantastic and miraculous images. However, fantasy picture of the world represents an imaginary world of one or sometimes several authors, while the mythological picture of the world is the result of collective consciousness. Unlike the mythological picture of the world the fantasy one is not accepted as real. The reader knows that it is an imaginary world. The fantasy picture of the world usually bears no sacral implication. It is also oriented not only on the past events, but can describe the present and the future depending on the author's choice. Myth and mythological images are often used for creating the fantasy picture of the world. Authors take a traditional «mythologeme», add details to it (like classification of the species, new magical abilities, etc.) and use it in this new way.