RECEPTIVE STRATEGIES OF Y. KLAVDIEV'S PLAY "THE YAKUZA DOGS"

• Main Author: T. N. Volkova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2017-06-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: adult reader; animation; child reader; heroic; receptive strategy; teen reader; visual
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/2192

The article discusses the play by contemporary playwright Yuri Klavdiev "TheYakuza Dogs." Here is a detailed (but not exhaustive) analysis of the cultural codes. According to the author of the study, the languages of animation, cinema, classical  and  fictional  literature,  computer  games  and  eastern  philosophy  form in the play, a specific "dialect" addressed to its teenage reader. The article emphasizes that a reading teenager is different from a child-reader and an adult reader: their receptive capabilities are largely defined by puberty crisis. On the one hand, in fiction a teenager looks for dynamics and heroics, and, on the other hand, they are eager to face  the  social  reality  fierce  with  its  innumerable  conflicts.  In  the  first  case, the teenagers manifest  themselves  as a  child-reader with  their interest for action and the  struggle  between  good  and  evil.  In  the  second  case,  on  the  contrary, as an adult, since the ability to see the border that separates the tale from life belongs only to a well-formed reader.