Ornithomorphic Images as an Element of the Artistic Picture of the World in the Works of the Northern Text of Russian Literature for Children

The article for the first time systematically examines ornithomorphic images in the works of the Northern text of Russian literature for children. The purpose of the work is to determine the place and significance of ornithomorphic images in the structure of the artistic picture of the world of works for children about the North. The objectives of the study are to study the semantic and poetic characteristics of bird images, determining their relationships with other elements of the artistic world of the Northern text of Russian literature for children, presentation of the experience of typology of ornithomorphic images based on the analysis of texts by G. P. Aksyonov, N. P. Aurova, S. K. Bezborodova, V. P. Borozdin, O. S. Bundura, N. A. Vurdova, N. K. Zhernakova, E.S. Kokovina, Yu. I. Korinets, A. I. Moshkovsky, I. D. Poluyanova, V. S. Pikulya, M. E. Skorokhodova, V. D. Fedorov, V. G. Frolova. The author, when analyzing samples of works functioning on the border of the Northern and children's texts, combines elements of methods of chronotopic, motivational, mythopoetic, system-semantic analysis, which meets the original nature of the local supertext. During the study, a number of conclusions were made. Ornithomorphic code occupies an important place in the artistic picture of the world of the Northern text of Russian literature for children. The images of birds often have a mythopoietic nature in their works, which is closely connected not only with the archetypal basis, but also with a certain space. In the considered corpus of texts on the geopoietic principle, one can distinguish images of birds associated with the forest space, the tundra and its lakes, bird markets on the Arctic islands and the water element - the sea and the river. In addition, ornithomorphic images actualize the motives of the wealth, biodiversity and beauty of the natural world of the North.