Author’s name:
Ilya. V. Sergodeev, Natalya. S. Olizko
Abstract:
The article studies the dynamics of the semantic complex of poetic texts’ dominant units. A dominant unit is a lexical item or a group of lexical items, which have dictionary and non-dictionary meanings in a given context due to their intertextual links to units of texts referred or alluded to by the poet (address texts). Since a dominant unit is an intertextual unit, the article provides a typology of intertextual relations which includes types of autho- (self-quotations, self-allusions), in- (quotations, allusions), para- (structural and compositional units of a text such as a title, an epigraph, etc.) and arch-textual relations (imitation of genre; referring to well-known word pictures or cultural phenomena). The author goes on to define intercontextuality as a concept functionally opposite to the intertextual type of textual relations, and proposes a model for analysis and synthesis of contextual meanings of poetic texts’ dominant units. The process consists of five basic steps: splitting a given poetic text into fragments; conducting contextual analysis of each lexical item in the specified fragment; looking for and defining intertextual relations between the dominant unit under analysis and units of address texts; conducting contextual analysis of address texts; and, finally, synthesizing, bringing together all obtained contextual meanings. The practical part of the research includes analyzing the poem Parting by an American poet Emily Dickinson with the focus on the poetical image life closed twice before its close and nouns Immortality, Heaven, and Hell. Intertextual relations of Parting link it with other poems by E. Dickinson as well as texts of letters written by the poet.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2020-49-1-104-130 |
| Downloads | 326 |
| Key words | Emily Dickinson; poetic text; dominant unit; semantic complex; intertextuality; meaning. |
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