NEW ASPECTS OF NARRATOLOGY:
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НОВІ АСПЕКТИ НАРАТОЛОГІЇ: ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЯ ЕСЕЇСТИЧНОГО ТЕКСТУ
NEW ASPECTS OF NARRATOLOGY: INTERPRETATION OF ESSAYISTIC TEXT

Author(s): Tetiana Shevchenko
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: essay; narrative; exogynarrator; author; discursive practice

Summary/Abstract: The articleʼs relevance lies in the need to understand the peculiarities of narrativityin essays. The article is written within the scope of narratology as one of the most relevant disciplinesin modern philology, narrative approach to communicative strategies in essay is used. The articleʼsgoal is to introduce and argumentate the concept “exogynarrator”, narrative instance in essay as adiscursive practice. As a result of the research, it is concluded that ‘narrator’ as a traditional categoryin epic works, can be applied to a writerʼs essay conventionally: in the essay there is no actual storyor narration, etc., except that it may be possible if narration turns into mediatation. It is proven thatthe process of meditation and the process of narration in an essay become a single entitiy. The bearerof these actions is the narrator, who in the essay acquires features of a thinker or turns into him. Theintroduced concept is illustrated based on the essays written by Ukrainian author S. Protsiuk.

  • Issue Year: 8/2020
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 281-295
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Ukrainian