ARTISTIC SYMBOL AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF THE AUTHOR’S WORLDVIEW IN J. FOWLES’S WORKS
An artistic symbol as a language unit belonging to the level of the unconscious and to culture is a part of a human worldview. The writers ’perception of the world is reflected in their works revealing the basic themes of their art. An artistic symbol is presented as one of the means of representation of the author ’s worldview. In the context of the writer ’s work a symbol can be formed by means of cognitive mechanisms including comparison and transposition of features of a physical object on an ideal object. The formation of a symbolic meaning of a lexical unit is performed with the shift of the components constituting its semantic structure on the axis “intensional meaning - implicated meaning”.