STEREOSCOPY AND PROMINENCE OF A HEROINE IN A DEPICTIVE TEXT (IN THE CONTEXT OF I.A. BUNIN’S SHORT STORY "CAMARGUE")
The article presents results of a language study in “Camargue”, a short story by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin. The language complexity of the novels is predetermined by the complexity of the writer's artistic world and the poetry of Bunin's late prose. The subject matter of the analysis is creative means of stereoscopy and prominence of the female character in this novel on different language levels: phonetic, word-forming, lexical, grammatical (morphological and syntactical). The phonetic expressivity of Bunin's prose is enhanced through the use of alliteration and assonance. On the lexical level there was determined a group of somatisms that create an opposition “external-internal/body-soul”, a group of coloratives taking a special meaning in the character's portrait, animalistic lexis revealing the “naturalness” of images, etc. The principal tropes are epithets, metaphors and similes that take unusual interpretation in the author's texts. To show the attitude towards the heroine of the short novel the author uses units of the word-forming level that is the diminutive-hypocoristic suffixes, morphemes of semantics of a diminished feature, incomplete action, etc. On the grammatical level in the structure of the image there was determined the means of creation of the non-processual characteristics: visual appearance, the outer world (nouns, adjectives, adverbs), and the processual characteristics: behaviour pattern of the characters (verbal forms).