A COMIC BOOK IN OPEN EDUCATIONAL SPACE: THE HYBRIDIZATION OF GENRE

Abstract

The article studies the information component of a literary-historical educational comic book, which realizes the cognitive and entertaining function as a complex one. The possibility of this type of polymodal texts to broadcast a significant volume of diverse educational information of humanitarian orientation is revealed, which is achieved by the combined realization of the narrative potential of the comic book and the cognitive potential of the encyclopedic reference. The authors define essential properties of an educational comic book as a genre of hybrid nature – permeability, reduced narrative density and metadisciplinarity. Consistently used techniques of textual information representation allow the recipient to clearly differentiate reliable and unreliable information, identify key educational information and assign it. The conclusion is made about the relevance of literary-historical comics as a type of comic literature oriented to the solution of educational tasks in the modern socio-cultural situation.