ALLUSION AS A CONTENT IN CONTENT: ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE WORKS OF O. WILDE


  • Valeria Soloshenko
  • Victoria Yashkina
Keywords: poetry, literary allusion, mythological allusion, biblical allusion, historical allusion, Oscar Wilde

Abstract

The article is focused on the study of one of the unexplored topics of Ukrainian linguistics, namely the literary peculiarity of allusion in the poetry of O. Wilde. In the research the author's most famous poems "The Garden of Eros", "The Sphinx", "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the poetic collection "Eleuteria" have been analyzed. The peculiarity of the use of allusions in the poetic work of O. Wilde are studied and classified according to the sources of allusion. Having studied the life and writer’s career of Wilde, we have determined that an allusion had been used for the creation of characters and plot in his work. The author had a wide range of ancient and historical knowledge, which was a basic material to create a system of images and plots of his works. Our work was focused on the analysis of Wilde's poetic works. It is revealed that the most frequent methods of allusion in writer’s poetry are mythological, biblical and historical ones.

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Published
2018-10-07
How to Cite
Soloshenko, V., & Yashkina, V. (2018). ALLUSION AS A CONTENT IN CONTENT: ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE WORKS OF O. WILDE. Anglistics and Americanistics, (15), 156-162. Retrieved from https://anglistika.dp.ua/index.php/AA/article/view/176
Section
RELEVANT ISSUES OF LITERARY STUDIES AND STYLISTICS

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