Kuninganna uued rõivad. Siima Škopi pildipärand kirjandusteaduse vaateväljas

This paper adopts a narratological research perspective towards the visual arts of Soviet Estonia. An effort is made to compare Stalinist poster art and illustrations of children›s books of the 1950s in a way that reveals them both as belletrist universes with similar narrational traits. Furthermore, evidence has been collected to indicate that the stories told in both areas are basically the same: modernist myths of pursuing personal happiness with the recurrent motif of the gradual empowerment of a protagonist. That is also why both are treated in the paper as synoptical texts: they narrate the same archetypal stories, yet they do it from slightly different viewpoints, much as the Gospels of Luke, Matthew and Mark ruminate on the life of Jesus Christ from somewhat diverging angles.