Homunkulus in Oneiric Space of Peter Akroid “The House of Doctor Dee”

The article analyzes the peculiarity of the image of the homunculus in P. Ackroyd’s novel “The House of Dr. Dee”, which determines the forms of spatial organization of the work. The conducted research reveals a dual directional process of re-equipping the literary science itself with its desire for immanent self-improvement, the search for new terms and definitions, on the one hand, and the active innovative experience of the art of the artistic word itself, on the other. It allows us to state the change of the artistic paradigm in the poetics of modern fiction; it is established that the artistic originality of the space and spatial organization of the text of the novel “The House of Dr. Dee” arises due to the interaction of the spaces of imagination, dreams, as well as the peculiar structuration of the space of the house as interiorized and exteriorized, the isolation of the map space, as well as the allusive space of the text. Mythological intertextual inclusions have been identified and studied, allusions to the works of Gustav Mairink “Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster”, E. Poe “The Mask of the Red Death” and “The Abbey of Nightmares” by T.L. Peacock. It is established that the allusive space of the text in combination with other varieties of artistic spaces of P. Ackroyd’s novel are forms of secondary artistic convention, forming a wide range of variability of the oneiric space poetics of the work. The functional interaction of varieties of oneiric spaces with theatrical play is determined. A new structural principle of creating the space poetics of the work is revealed, wich originality arises due to the symbiosis of established realistically reliable spatial forms and images (semiotics of the house) and new oneiric spatial forms.