FEMININE ASSIMILATIONS IN TEXT FORMATION OF "THE KUKOTSKY ENIGMA" BY L. ULITSKAYA
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-2-199-205
Abstract
The article features comparisons by similarity and functionally equivalent metaphors targeting the heroines of The Kukotsky Enigma by L. Ulitskaya. The author proposes to take into account the differences between logical and figurative comparisons, emphasizing its subjective character and surreal modality. Also, the author suggests that figurative and logical comparisons can be combined in a compound sentence with a comparative subordinate clause. The thematic variety of feminine images of assimilation in the novel correlates with the application of nature-related and anthroponymic comparisons. Zoomorphous type prevails in nature-related comparisons, some of them shaping the associative microfields of the main characters. An attempt is made to explain the writer's conceptual thematic purpose connected with these microfields. The textual connections between comparison and metaphor are considered to be genetically close linguistic phenomena, which are combined by the common concept of "comparative". This makes it possible 1) to maintain the perceptive integrity of thematic associative microfields with comparative dominants involved in the female images; 2) to trace the correlation of tropes with realia in textual formation. A gender approach to the description of assimilative images and the representation of a wide variety of their modes of expression in L. Ulitskaya's novel have allowed the author to reveal the idiostyle features of the female author. It includes frequent forms of assimilation accompanied by explanations and clarifications that reflect, directly or indirectly, the author's attitude (sympathy, irony, or sarcasm) towards her female characters, as well as her conceptual thematic purpose related to the main characters’ fates and that of the family of the famous gynecologist doctor Kukotsky. The article features speech differentiation in the feminine images of assimilation by the author and her characters. The analysis performed has revealed a tendency to female comparative characteristics in L. Ulitskaya’s style.
About the Author
Ya. Li
Guangxi Medical University
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
22 Shuangyong Road, Nanning, Guangxi, China, 530021
28 Viluyskaya St., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630126
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Li Ya. FEMININE ASSIMILATIONS IN TEXT FORMATION OF "THE KUKOTSKY ENIGMA" BY L. ULITSKAYA. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2018;(2):199-205. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-2-199-205
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