THE ROLE OF AMBROSE BIERCE’S STORY TITLES IN THE FORMATION OF THE "FEAR" CONCEPT
Mikhaleva Elizaveta Sergeevna
Moscow Region State University
Submitted: 01.04.2018
Abstract. The article analyzes Ambrose Bierce’s story titles as a unified system and identifies how this system in its poetical originality is interrelated with the peculiarities of the writer’s artistic world. The paper examines the typology of Bierce’s story titles participating in implementation of the "fear" concept, evoking the reader’s curiosity, motivating him for certain interpretation, which correlates with the author’s conception. After analyzing and systematizing the original titles, epigraphs and subtitles of the American writer’s stories the researcher concludes on the importance of tragic pathos and the author’s interest in horrible. It is shown that Bierce comes out as a psychological expert not only in transferring nuances of personages’ emotion of fear but also in creating the atmosphere of horror.
Key words and phrases: А. Бирс, атмосфера страха, заглавие, концепт, поэтика заглавия, рассказ, символика названия, типология названий, A. Bierce, atmosphere of horror, title, concept, poetics of title, story, symbolism of title, typology of titles
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