This document discusses romance fiction that is popular among young adults today. It focuses on how modernization and reducing literature lessons in schools has negatively impacted reading habits. However, extracurricular reading activities could help compensate. The document also examines some of the most popular Russian authors and fantasts. It provides an overview of romanticism in literature, describing its key themes and differences from mass culture. Examples are given of how the romantic principle appears in modern youth stories, such as works by Sergey Lukyanenko and Ekaterina Murashova.

1. RUSSKIKH EKATERINA VLADIMIROVNA KIROV, RUSSIAN FEDERATION VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITIES
ROMANCE FICTION TODAY: SUPPLY AND DEMAND

2. YOUNG ADULTS - a special group of people that came from the children's age and prepare to step into adulthood

3. Education is the primary view of 15-17-years people activities
Educational environment is an important factor in the development of spiritual maturity of youth.

4. MODERNIZATION SCHOOL BY REDUCING THE LESSONS OF LITERATURE
Reduction of hours of basic subjects is compensated by adding hours of new disciplines – informatics, for example.
For improving the reading crisis among students it is necessary to compensate for the reduction in literature lessons by increasing the extracurricular reading activities.

5. Nowadays, young people – students, schoolchildren, outside of their school time are spending their free time mostly online

6. WELL-KNOWN RUSSIAN LITERARY SITES AND ONLINE LITERATURE SHOPPING

7. MOST POPULAR RUSSIAN FANTASTS
Sergey Lukyanenko
Arcady & Boris Strugatskiy

8. MOST POPULAR RUSSIAN FANTASTS
Yuri Nikitin
Vladislav Krapivin

9. MOST POPULAR RUSSIAN AUTHORS
Boris Akunin
Ekaterina Murashova
Viktor Pelevin
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Maria Aromshtam
Dina Rubina

10. DUAL-WORLD PRINCIPLE OF ROMANTICISM
The principle of dualism is a fundamental feature of romantic esthetic

11. ROMANTICISM - the literature and art’s trend of the first quarter of the XIX century. It is characterized as a cult of the individual & humane
•The valor, justice, and other high-quality characteristics, the physical strength and beauty of romantic heroes are glorified by this genre.
•The idealization of the past, isolation from reality are the romantic features.

12. Examples of romantic works are tales by B. Grimm and J. Grimm, J. Byron, M. Lermontov

13. The core theme of the Romanticism is the conflict between the fantastic, imaginary component and the life’s realities
Johann Heinrich Füssli " Nightmare"

14. the difference between romantic & mass culture’s values
•Romantic culture
•identification with the world
•aim at the ideal
•improving and perfection
•need of submission to fate
•acting against evil
•Mass culture
•identification with the majority of population
•aim at the standards of mass culture
•novelty in consumption
•feeling of permissiveness
•acting against non- compliance of mass culture

15. THE ROMANTIC PRINCIPLE IN MODERN STORIES FOR YOUTH
S. Lukyanenko Knights of forty islands
V. Krapivin The children of blue flamingo
E. Murashova
The correction class

16. The fantasy world of every romantic story elevates the romantics above the life’s prose & liberates the diversity of their identities
I. Aivazovsky The Ninth Wave

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