PARTICULARITY OF POSITION’S MODIFICATIONS AND DIFFERENTIATION OF FOCUS IN JOSEPH BRODSKY’S POEM “THE GREAT ELEGY TO JOHN DONNE”
The article is devoted to investigation of literary work as a summary of different outlooks or positions of an author: modifications of outlooks (material and psychological) and focusing, consideration’s focus on object or on a complex of objects. The article deals with correlation between position’s modifications in a literary work and direction of reader’s consideration. In order to identify and to distinguish different types of such kind of modifications the article proposes the typology of position’s modification. The proposed typology differs with parallel speculations developed within narratology on it’s greater differentiation of the main types of modifications and, therefore, more detail analysis of a literary work. The analysis results are presented in the form of a two-level scheme demonstrating sequentially changing of viewpoint and focus.
Keywords: position, viewpoint, narratology, consideration’s directionality, counterpoint, focalization
References:
Brodsky 2011 – Brodsky I. Poetry and poems. Vol. 1. Saint-Petersburg, 2011. In Russian.
Donskikh 2006 – Donskikh O. A. From the position of God (Reflection on the “Book of Job”). Siberia at the crossroads of world religions. Novosibirsk, 2006. P. 6–9. URL: http://www.nsu.ru/classics/donskikh/O%20knige%20Iova.pdf. In Russian.
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Issue: 2, 2015
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