THANATOLOGICAL METAPHOR REALIZATION IN STORY YORICK BY T. N. TOLSTAYA
Sizykh Oksana Vasil'evna
North-Eastern Federal University
Abstract. The author considers the ironic specificity and techniques of the realization of the key metaphor of death in the story Yorick by T. N. Tolstaya. Literary allusion, folklore and mythological analogies at the level of image system are the leading techniques of the metaphor Yorick realization, which forms the model of the modern world. The semantic inconsistency of the thanatological metaphor of the story is associated with the author's comprehension of death as a phenomenal event.
Key words and phrases: современная литература, постмодернизм, Т. Н. Толстая, танатологическая метафора, аллюзия, фольклорная и мифологическая аналогии, планетарный миф, ироническое повествование, комический эффект, modern literature, postmodernism, T. N. Tolstaya, thanatological metaphor, allusion, folklore and mythological analogies, planetary myth, ironic narration, comic effect
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