LINGUOSTYLISTIC MEANS OF REPRESENTING THE CHRONOTOPE “THE WAY” IN THE NOVEL “THE MAGUS” BY J. FOWLES

Abstract

The article dwells on a problem of systemic manner of representing a chronotope by a specific choice of lexical units, grammatical forms, syntactical structures and stylistic devices. The article is focused on the chronotope “The Way” as it is revealed in the third part of the novel “The Magus” by J. Fowles. The chronotope is considered to include three components – space, time and subject which blend into an emotionally coloured entity aimed at modelling a time-space continuum in which the main character is immersed. “The Way” chronotope in the context of postmodern literature is presented as a way of finding self-identity. In the novel “The Magus” by J. Fowles this chronotope is closely connected with acquiring real love. The stylistic analysis presented in the article includes decoding allusive parallels between the novel by J. Fowles and the myth about Orpheus and Eurydice, deciphering the meaning of symbols and commenting on stylistic devices used to reveal the emotional state of the main character. Studying lexical means of rendering space and time components of the chronotope helps to find a correlation between the ways of their representation and the emotional state of the narrator proving the interrelation of all the three components of the chronotope as a system.