Keyword: «paradox»

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 deals with stylistic ways of creating the image of the atypical reasoner Alfred Doolittle in the classical work by B. Shaw. The playwright’s imagery is viewed within the context of socialist and feministic ideas advocated in the play. The author comes to the conclusion that Doolittle’s characterization is based upon an ample use of lexical, syntactic and phonetic devices indicative of oratorical style.

The article is devoted to evaluating the role of paradox and its realization mechanisms in Lord Henry’s speech within the context of central themes raised in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. The author analyzes the paradoxical judgments and aphorisms of one of the main characters, reflecting the novelist’s philo-sophical ideas of a social, cultural and ideological nature. The scientific paper claims that Wilde’s paradoxical thinking is revealed in the speech characteristics of the personage.