Keyword: «allusion»

The article regards the author’s numerous initials in the text «Notes round the corner» by A. Bitov as a peculiar code which allows perceiving the make-up and character of the author’s contemporary literary environment and enriching the text with supplementary historical-literary sense.

The functionality of biblical image in Zakhar Prilepin’s novel "Resident" is considered, the meaning of direct citation interfacing and evangelic intertextuality asymmetric variation is revealed. It is proved that the author-narrator expresses axiological poetic manner of work with the help of allusions, reminiscences, interpretations of scenes from the books of the Old and the New Covenant, gives assessment characters, shows the depth of the spiritual crisis of the 1920s leading Russian people to the disaster, determines the ways out the “outer darkness” of the age of civil wars, famine and decay.

The article is devoted to the study and analysis of functioning of allusive antroponym as a stylistic device in a literary text of Charles Dickens's novel “Dombey and Son”. The article proposes to consider allusive antroponym as an implicate within the framework of language personality theory, developed in the works of V.N. Telia and Yu.N. Karaulov, and a communicative approach to the literary text analysis. This point of view allows us to take a fresh look at the stylistic device of allusion and its role in a literary text, namely, as a structure that realizes content-conceptual information.

The article deals with the characteristic features of S. Meyer’s artistic manner in her bestseller “The Host”. The novelist’s stylistic devices are viewed within the context of her imagery and themes. The writer comes to the conclusion that the novel under analysis abounds with tropes showing high expressive potential. The reader’s background knowledge must be involved the process of interpretation. Frequent use of stylistic devices based upon logical opposition typical of oratorical and belles-lettres function styles accounts for the success of the anti-utopia.

The article is devoted to the analysis of functioning of allusive antroponym stylistic device in a literary text based on the novel “My Son’s Story” by Nadine Gordimer. The study is founded on the theoretical theses proposed in the works of V.I. Suprun, A.V. Superanskaya, N.V. Vasylyeva, Yu.A. Karpenko and other scholars. The author of the article analyses and systematizes the classifications of personal names available in philology. It is offered to regard the text-forming and stylistic functions as the leading ones. The text-forming function is manifested in the text unfolding, irradiation of the name in the context, in the deep elaboration of the author’s ideas in the creation of characters’ images. The stylistic function reveals itself in the appeal to emotive, expressive and evaluative shades of meaning of the allusive name by way of activation of eternal senses of such respectful references as Biblical, Greek-Roman and Shakespeare allusions.