Information about the author:
Alyona V. Kostyrya
Alyona V. Kostyrya, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Philosophy, Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lenina St., 13, bld. A, 614990 Perm, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6510-3911
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Abstract:
Continuation of a famous work or sequel is undoubtedly a phenomenon of mass literature. Sequels as an example of fast literature are quickly written, quickly published, discussed by readers for some time, and most of them are also quickly forgotten. The sequels written to Jane Austen’s famous novel Pride and Prejudice are no exception. Even the sequel Death Comes to Pemberley created by a famous detective master prompted mixed reactions among critics and common readers. The stumbling block that causes rejection from the reading public is in its compliance with the author’s code of the original work. The further the sequel is in its form and content from the original text, the lower its communicative success is. At the same time, comparative analysis of the two texts shows that the mechanism of creating sequels is not simply based on repetitive practice and visual citation, but should imply complex process of representing the proto-text, including stylistic continuity. The analysis involves cognitive schemes of actualization of characters and loci, which constitute Jane Austen’s author code and allows us to formalize the search for correspondences between the original text and the sequel.
