Gothic Markers of the Detective Genre

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the specifics of genre diffusion in literary studies, in particular, the analysis and study of the functional load of the triune category of Gothic poetics (mystery - intense expectation - horror) in the context of the detective genre. In order to study the dialectical unity of the mentioned genre constructions, it seems appropriate to trace their geneological structure, as well as to identify, characterize and analyze basic archetypes as the primary contours of genre transformation. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to systematize relevant features of one or another genre, as well as to identify "diffuse" features of literary Gothic and detective fiction.

As a result, the correlative relationship between literary Gothic and detective through the prism of mystery - tense expectation - horror was established, however, it was investigated that in the paradigm of the poetic continuum of the Gothic genre, the specified triune category is interdependent and complementary in relation to the mystical phenomenon, while in the detective it is rationalistic.

In addition, the semantic horizons of the image of Death and its semantic and functional load in both genre structures were considered, as well as a comparative characterization of the main characters of the specified genre categories was carried out.