STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES IN U. LE GUIN’S FANTASIES


  • Irina Shyshkina
Keywords: language level, literary text, stylistic analysis, stylistic device, stylistic means, text

Abstract

The article is based on the current interest in Ursula Le Guin’s stories as they are little observed from the stylistic point of view. This work clarifies the main stylistic peculiarities of the writer, presents a profound analysis of Le Guin’s story “The Wizard of The Earthsea” on each level of the language (except morphological): phonographic (antithesis, climax, comparison), lexical (metaphor, epithet, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron), syntactical (repetition, parallel construction, rhetorical question, ellipse, inversion, polysyndeton, asyndeton). It is described the functions performed by all the stylistic devices used in the text. It can be stated that “The Wizard of The Earthsea” is very rich in various striking,original stylistic means, each of which has an essential role to the entire “tissue” of the text. At the end of the research it can be concluded that the most powerful emotional expression, logical and psychological effects are comprised in those parts of the text in which there is a synthesis of stylistic techniques of different levels of language. And the more such techniques the story has, the more it impresses the reader. These parts of the text make the reading process much more interesting and incredibly exciting. Synthesis of a great number of stylistic devices is found mainly in the descriptions. Sometimes these means are so merged, that it is quite difficult to determine which of them is used in one or another sentence.

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Published
2018-10-07
How to Cite
Shyshkina, I. (2018). STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES IN U. LE GUIN’S FANTASIES. Anglistics and Americanistics, (15), 168-174. Retrieved from https://anglistika.dp.ua/index.php/AA/article/view/180
Section
RELEVANT ISSUES OF LITERARY STUDIES AND STYLISTICS