Nina Arnaytova

To carry out a lexical analysis of a writer’s idiostyle, it is necessary to identify certain word groups in his or her works and examine how these groups were selected and how they are used by the author. Colorisms are truly indicative in this case. This paper focuses on a multifold analysis of colorisms that could be made using six parameters. The author uses the terms ‘colorism’, ‘true colorism’, and ‘quasi colorism’. The analysis of colorisms clarifies an author’s idiostyle and psychology as well as the poetics of his or her works.

This paper focuses on the use of an integrative technology at Literature and Russian classes. The author suggests using a linguistic and stylistic analysis of a literary work as a tool to approach and understand it.