Odor words in A. I. Kuprin''s prose
The article considers peculiarities of using words denoting odor in A. I. Kuprin's prose. The author characterises nature images from the point of view of using words referring to olfactory sensations and determines the most typical functions of this lexical group and its role in forming different levels of literary text. A description is given of the interaction between odor characteristics and taste, sight, touch and sound ones. The article gives the main structural transformation models of these characteristics for creating an integral artistic image and describes the role of this lexical group in interaction between different space-time textual aspects. The authors pay attention to significant expansion of the range of objects acquiring odor characteristics.