THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE CHRISTMAS ARCHETYPE IN THE MODERN STORY 

Kozina Tatyana Nikolaevna, Candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of Russian language and Russian language teaching technique for primary school, Penza State Pedagogical University named after V. G. Belinsky, faberge@pnz.ru

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The article is referred to appearance and existence of texts on Christmas subject area. Contemporary prosaic works, devoted to Christmas and metamorphosis of Christmas’ archetype, are considered.

christmas, contemporary short story, motif, archetype, metamorphosis.