Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jun 2016)
AUTHORS' STRATEGIES IN THE ENGLISH TEXT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TRILOGY "LORD OF THE RINGS" BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN)
Abstract
Authors of the article proceed from the assumption that a certain author's orientation in the selection of the artistic worldbuilding can be revealed in any text. This concerns not the stylistic techniques and choice of the artistic means but the detection of formation of strategy and division of a literary text. It describes the process of creating a space-time organization of the text according to the author's task and intention. It is proved that the landscape in the time continuum in the trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien forms a certain visual impression and transmits information of the associative (psychological) type, meaning that, the author's textual strategy is aimed at identifying links between internal and external information about the space-time picture of the world. The authors come to the conclusion about three main strategies in the creation of a space-time model in a trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien simultaneously implemented in the creation of the visual image, transfer of information of associative type, usage of the landscape and temporal situation description for the implementation and disclosure of basic idea of the work.
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