SPECIFICITY OF THE SYSTEM OF IMPRESSIVE AND EXPRESSIVE MEANS IN THE NOVEL OF N.F. KORSUNOV “THE HIGHEST MEASURE”

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to reveal the linguistic originality of works of N.F. Korsunov, the specifics of the use of pictorial and expressive means that form the basis of the writer’s idiostyle. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time a system of figurative means reflecting the originality of the writer’s artistic thinking is analyzed: metaphor, metonymy, comparison, epithet, paraphrase, parceling. The results obtained showed that the main style-forming factor in the writer’s work is metaphor, the linguistic originality of the novel under study lies in the peculiarities of the use of metonymic and comparative constructions, epithets and other tropes. The carried out structural and semantic analysis of metaphorical nominations indicates their dominant character in the artistic space of the prose writer. The research reveals that the interpenetration of tropes occupies a special place in the writer’s creative manner.