Basic notions of the literary text interpretation. Text partitioning and composition. Implication and artistic detail.

Artistic detail - condensed, laconic and very expressive representation in the text of a complicated, multifaceted phenomenon, fact or idea;

important element to be taken into account when seeking out the message of a text;

reproduces the implicit content and the author's attitude;

create foregrounding a specialized usage of language means perceived as unusual, unexpected, or "deautomatized“;

Functional classification of Artistic details:

? depicting details (recreate visual images of nature and human appearance, mentioned only 1 time in the text)

? characterological details (reveal personage’s psychological properties, habits and traits through both direct and indirect characterization and are found throughout the text)

? authenticity details (used to make the reader believe in the real existence of the described things and events, i.e. names of countries, streets, dates, etc.)

? implicit details (implications / implicates) (they point to hidden meanings through external features of the objects represented, they are regarded as structural units of the implicit (subtextual) level) depends on the reader’s thesaurus, the reacher it is – the more is the ability to identify implications.

Types

implicit title

implication of precedence

implicit detail

Degrees

Superficial (economy of speech, elliptical sentences, unfinished s., aposiopesis - a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination)

Trite – simple SD and EM, e.g. dead epithets, metaphors, hyperbole, etc.\

Local – micro- macroimages that are simple and repeat again and again, but they bear author’s personal style (idiosyncrasy) and are important for understanding of a textual fragment

Deep – the same as local but are important for understanding of the whole text

Dark – require cultural and philological competence for their decoding

-allusions – a mention of a name of a real person, historical event or literary character, A. are harder to detect than R.

-reminiscences – reference to another literary work in the fictional text, presupposes broad knowledge in history and culture, R. can be direct (quotations) and indirect (paraphrased quotations)

-ethnoculteral implications - textual units that bear hidden meanings related to realia, customs, traditions shared within a certain cultural community

Text partitioning belongs to one of the main categories of the literary text: discreteness, i.e. the formation of the text from its distinct parts, it is the reverse side of integration. In order to define text as discrete, the reader should isolate 2 notions:

1) text composition – logical and aesthetic unity of plot elements

2) text partitioning – deals with spatial arrangement of syntactical, graphical and logical units – sentences, paragraphs, chapters.

53. The notion of the author in the narrative text. Internal and external aspects of the author’s textual presence.

Semiotic model of communication:

Real Implied Narrator Narratee Implied Real

Author Author Reader reader

The notion of the author:

Russian tradition - ‘image of the author’ (V.V. Vinogradov, B. Korman, M. Bakhtin) - metaimage (N. Goncharova)

Western tradition - implied author (W. Booth, Sh. Rimmon-Kenan, M. Toolan)

abstract author (V. Schmid)

Image of the A. - A concentrated embodiment of the essence of the text that draws together the entire system of linguistic structures of the characters in their correlation with the narrator or narrators, and thereby being the conceptual stylistic centre, the focus of the whole

(V.V. Vinogradov)

I. Internal aspect (a certain point of view)

II. External aspect (language manifestation, the system of images, idea, tone, etc.)

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