THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PICTURE NARRATIVES FOR CHILDREN IN GREAT BRITAIN

Abstract

The research is devoted to a analytical review of the establishment and development of the picture narratives in Great Britain. We consider such narratives as stories about fiction events, which are going on in a fiction time and space and their narration is created by means of verbal and visual means. The addressee of such narratives is a child9reader of a young age, who comprehends fiction stories as games, for these reason stories are construed in a special way. In our research, we used the theoretical works of the scientists of Children’s Literature of Martin Salisbury, Daniel Hahn, as well as the concept of narrative modeling of literary texts for children of A. Tsapiv (Tsapiv, 2020). In our work we have identified the main features of the establishment and development of the illustrated narratives, addressed to children's readers, based on the following concepts: «illustrated texts for children», «texts with illustrations», «a child reader»; we have revealed the main functions, performed by illustrations in such types of texts. To determine the peculiarities of the functions of English literary texts for children, we use the works of Painter, Martin, & Unsworth (2012), of A. Tsapiv (Tsapiv, 2020). The aim of our research is to systematize the scientific research on the establishment and development of the illustrated narratives in Great Britain, in particular fairy-tale narratives, addressed to children's readers. The material of our research – the texts of English-language fairy tales of the XXI century, namely – illustrated literary text "Paddington in the Garden by Michael Bond, which will clarify the specifics of their textual and multimodal structure. Thanks to the narratives that make up the symbolic plots, according to which reality is classified, that it is understood. Accordingly, we set the task to analyze and systematize the peculiarities of the functions of the illustrated texts for children