A DIACHRONICAL OUTLOOK ON THE ENGLISH GOTHIC NOVEL: MORPHOLOGICAL & LEXICAL DIMENSIONS
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 28
Abstract
The objective of the research is the investigation of the peculiarities of the English gothic novel, including an outlook on its history, and the evolutionary changes in the author’s narrative and the artistic dialogue through XVIII — XXI centuries. The object of the study is the author’s monologue and artistic dialogue through its development starting from the second half of the century until modern days, its subject being the evolutionary changes in the morphological and syntactic organization of the author’s monologue and artistic dialogue in the English gothic novels under study. The fi ndings of the research consist in establishing the diff erences in the morphological and syntactic structure of the English gothic novel in diachrony. It was ascertained that the general structure of the gothic novel text is not aff ected by the dominating literary traditions of the epochs considered, which makes the genre rather specifi c, conservative and easily recognisableregardless of the time of its writing. As far as the lexical structure is concerned, it has to be pointed out that at the beginning of its development the gothic novel contained more high-fl own vocabulary than its modern counterpart. However, archaisms and historisms can be introduced into a contemporary text with the aim of creating a characteristic gothic atmosphere. From the point of view of syntax, compound, complex and complicated simple sentences predominate in the gothic novel both in XVIII and XXI centuries. A comparatively slow process of structure simplifi cation we see as one the peculiarities of the genre. Thus, Gothicism is intended to meet high aesthetic criteria and have аn exaggeratedly chimeric way of reality representation in terms of ideas and form alike.
Authors and Affiliations
O. O. Pozharytska, Alina G. YEZHKOVA
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