GROTESQUE AS A METHOD OF ILLUSTRATION OF THE DOUBLE WORLD IN THE WORKS OF E. T.A. HOFFMANN (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SHORT STORIES “THE SANDMAN” AND “THE STONE HEART”)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the problem of two worlds in the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann. The relevance of the research topic lies in the need for a private study of the grotesque as a way to illustrate two worlds on the example of individual works of the author. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using materials of the article in the further study of the writer’s creative heritage. In the methodological aspect, the research results can be used in the classroom in literary and linguistic disciplines within the framework of a higher educational institution. The purpose of the research is a comprehensive analysis of the grotesque as a way of illustrating the double world in the short stories “The Sandman” and “The Stone Heart”. The methodological apparatus of the research includes the following literary methods: phenomenological method, formal method, structural method, functional method, comparative method, method of literary hermeneutics. The auxiliary methods are linguistic: the method of linguistic observation and description, the comparative linguistic method, the lexical-semantic method, the contextual method. Based on a combination of methods, we adhere to an integrated approach. The result of the research was the definition of the peculiarities of the use of the grotesque, its features, forms and methods of implementation on the examples of the short stories “The Sandman” and “The Stone Heart”, when referring to the lexical, semantic and ideological-figurative levels of the language.