Carnivalesque as a manifestation of theatricality in English postmodernist literary text: a linguopoetic perspective
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
This article explores linguistic means of creating the effect of carnivalesque as a manifestation of theatricality of postmodernist prose through the prism of linguopoetics. Despite the general interest of literary scholars towards the phenomenon of carnivalesque, its linguistic representation in postmodernist literature remains understudied. Alongside literary studies, various approaches to defining the effect of carnivalesque are considered by text linguistics. In the context of postmodernism this effect stems from the fundamental interrelatedness of literary and theatrical forms of expression. Carnivalesque, along with other forms of theatricality, entails exaggerated and often playful dichotomy between realistic and unrealistic illusive modes of literary representation. From a linguopoetic perspective, the carnivalesque is construed as a multilateral property of literary text grounded in a wide range of linguistic means and manifested at various textual levels, lexical, imagistic, compositional, and narrative among them. Following this approach, special attention is given to the representation of carnivalesque in J. Winterson’s, J. Fowles’, and A. Carter’s novels. Viewed as a salient characteristics of postmodernist fiction, the carnivalesque amplifies the effect of role-playing, illusion, and masquerade in literary text. In this sense, a linguopoetic perspective of the carnivalesque enriches the overall understanding of theatricality and elucidates further perspectives of its explication within the framework of intermediality studies.
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Н. В. Раренко
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