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Article name Poetics in House, M. D. TV series (USA, 2004–2012): Narrative, Mythology, Pragmatics
Authors Plevako S.V. Master of Journalism, Lecturer, fil_nauka@mail.ru
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Section MEDIA LINGUISTICS
UDK 792.097
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Annotation The article is devoted to a textual component of modern TV series. There is an attempt of philological interpretation of television series through the analysis of narrative structures, characters, mythological and pragmatic level of the text. The empirical material is the cult television series of the last decade House, M. D. (USA, 2004–2012). The article reveals the specifics of detective narrative structure of the series, explores the creating techniques of a character, and discovers a deep mythological subtext of House. Interpretation of the inner meanings of the series text allows the author to observe extra-textual level and to describe the specificity of communicative interaction in the paradigm ‘the author – the viewer’. The pragmatic level of the series is composed of two key components: the actual story implementing the narrative of medical investigation which is based on semantic gaps and effect of stress; and the character corresponding to modern viewer request (charisma, genius, a trickster and a star). In addition, the show is filled with national (U. S.) and crosscultural archetypes, it is intertextual and inscribed in mass cultural context.
Key words poetics of television series, detective narrative, trickster, House, M. D., micronarration and macronarration, mythology of television series.
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