The article Cthulhu for Children. References to H. P. Lovecraft’s Works in John Bellairs and Brad Strickland’s Lewis Barnavelt Series discusses references to H. P. Lovecraft’s works in John Bellairs and Brad Strickland’s children’s horror novels about Lewis Barnavelt. Contemporary “children’s-like” books which make use of the Cthulhu Mythos are presented, as well as basic information about the series and relations between Bellairs and Lovecraft, which provide the foundation for an intertextual dialogue with the gentleman from Providence’s prose in the considered novels. Not only do the Lewis Barnavelt books, The Beast Under the Wizard’s Bridge in particular, utilize horror, but also ridicule it on the basis derived from the “great subversive play”. Therefore, carnivalesque world, in which ‘weak’ children defeat a Great Old One, contrasts with the universe known from Lovecraft’s writings, where humans, overwhelmed by the incomprehensibility and vastness of the cosmic power, are deprived of any hope.
Text function of multi-leveled language means expressing the modal meaning of possibility as one of the explicators of the author’s modality in Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina is considered in the article.The authors determine functional specificity of the given means in revealing the valuable aspects of the heroes of the novel Anna Karenina, ruining the main heroine and influencing severely the people close to her: children, husband and Vronsky. The article traces the role of the modal means in showing the dynamics of formation and spiritual negative transformation of vital views of the heroine contrasting to the „family ideas” of the author of the novel and accepted by his readers.
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