LITERARY AND GENERAL CULTURAL RECEPTION OF ARCHETYPAL SPATIAL IMAGINEMENTS OF W. THACKEREY (IN THE CONDITIONS OF UKRAINIAN TODAY)

Abstract

The main aspects of the disclosure of archetypical spatial concepts in one of the classic texts of world literature are considered in this article. The authors focus on the major signs of the archaic concepts of space and trace the features of their reproduction in the plot of conflicts of Thackeray novel «Vanity Fair». Manifestations of initiation rite and the phenomenon of changing the identity are analyzed. The image of a conductor/mediator into the sacred world is depicted. On examining the peculiarities of Thackeray’s clarification of snobbery phenomenon, the aspects of axiological semantic of spatial representations are deduced.