The lake’s image in the artistic worldview of the Northern text of Russian literature for children

INTRODUCTION. For the first time, the works of the Northern Text of Russian literature for children, in which the lake’s image arises, are systematized. The purpose of the study is to consider the artistic and semantic features of the leitmotif image of the lake in the context of the specifics of the artistic world of the North. The objectives of the research are to identify the main mythopoetic and realistic characteristics of the lake’s image in the works of the Northern text for children; to determine the motives and images with which it interacts as a structural element of the Northern text, to identify the place of the lake’s image in the artistic worldview of the North.MATERIALS AND METHODS. Using a systematic approach to the literary text, which is a set of methods (chronotopic, motivic, mythopoetic, systemic-semantic) that reveal the object as a single system, the lake’s image in the works of writers of the second half of the 20th century is considered: A. Linevsky, A. Petukhov, V. Pikul, M. Skorokhodov, A. Chlenov.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. After analyzing the artistic material, it is concluded that there are two variants of the lake ’s image: tundra and forest lakes. The first is realized through the mythologeme of the circle and the personification method, the second through the motives of the two worlds, secrets, boundaries, changes of the hero. The lake’s image in the Northern text of Russian literature for children also approaches the images of the sea and the river and actualizes the motif of the unity of the world.CONCLUSION. This study is a particular stage in the study of the figurative-semantic structure of the Northern text of Russian literature for children as a supertext and indicates broad prospects for its further study.