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Name: Rhizome structures in the small prose by Tatyana Tolstaya: the structural model of an image-metabola

Authors: Novikova Eleonora Gennadyevna

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper is dedicated to the features of the poetic system, which was formed in the works of the modern Russian small prose writer Tatyana Tolstaya – the well known representative of neo-Baroque (one of the branches of the Russian postmodernism). Relying on the postmodernist concept of rhizome, the author of the paper reveals the rhizome phenomena at three structural levels of the literary work: at the level of the speech art form, at the level of the figurative art form and at the conceptual level. Two structural types (two models) of image-metabolas come into light by the methods of the linguopoetic analysis in the small prose of T. Tolstaya. The peculiarity of the structure and the functioning of the image-metabola «Yorick – baleen – whale» having some artistic denotation in the text are described in the story by T. Tolstaya «Yorick». Other interpretations to the story have also been given, taking into account the intensiveness of the text, produced by its rhizome structure.

Keywords: tatyana tolstaya, neo-baroque, linguistic poetics, cognitive poetics, speech art form, rhizome, image-metabola, artema-polysemant

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