This article investigates the problem of style stability and variation over time and presents the results of analysis of style evolution of American romantic poet H.W. Longfellow. The feature set includes 29 morphological and syntactic characteristics. The method of multivariate discriminant analysis is used. The study showed significant style changes over time and made it possible to single out the major tendencies of style evolution: the poet in his mature verses returns to the characteristics of his early lyrics. Besides, comparison of the variable and stable characteristics demonstrated that the initial part of the line is connected with style evolution, whereas the end of the line (which is the rhymed position) is less variable over time. The results may be useful for authorship attribution and manuscript dating research.
Variance of individual style over time and the tendencies in style evolution are important issues in modern linguistics. This paper investigates how parameters of space and movement categorization were deployed by the famous American poet H.W. Longfellow at different stages of his creative career. The attention is focused on lexical units with spatial meaning. The analysis revealed significant changes in (i) the structure of space, (ii) the ratio of horizontal vs. vertical relations of objects, statics vs. dynamics, and (iii) the role of a human being in poetic space. The early verse represents the world as a balanced unity, which then turns into a more complex system with two strata of reality. At the final stage of Longfellow’s creative career, space in his poetic world is integrated again but now acquires a new structural organisation that is different, to a certain extent, from that of his early period.
The review offers a detailed description of the book “Mnemosyne’s Gift. Nabokov’s Novels in the Context of the Russian Autobiographical Tradition” by B. V. Averin. B. V. Averin’s work is devoted to the autobiographical genre in the Russian literature, its features, and also represents a deep analysis of the majority of V. Nabokov’s works from the point of view of autobiographical art. The book covers the main theoretical problems of the autobiographical genre: three-side unity of the author, the intermediate position of autobiographical texts, the multiple “I” phenomenon, the classification of certain types of autobiography, the analysis of the autobiographical creativity of different authors.
The article investigates system relations in individual style, which is viewed as a set of specific features of linguistic means typical for a certain author. The attention is focused on the authorial metaphor occupying the central position in linguistic research, especially in cognitive linguistics. The paper deals with the analysis of metaphor in the individual style of H. Lonfellow, a famous American romantic poet. The goal of the analysis is to establish the parameters of the author’s cognition, to single out statistically relevant tendencies in the creation of the text imagery reflecting similarities and differences
between the elements of mental picture of the world. Correlation analysis (Cole co-efficient) of multiaspect metaphor features has made it possible to reveal interdependence between semantic characteristics of lexis representing target and source
domain with localization of these lexical units in verse line.
As a result, we have found a number of statistically relevant interrelations, unexpected in accordance with common logic. These interrelations shed light on not evident tendencies in the structure of the authorial metaphor from the point of view
of (a) structural and semantic characteristics of target and source domains and (b) structural parameters of target domain, on the one hand, and source domain, on the other hand. The obtained data can become the basis for the algorithm to model an
authorial style, namely its most complicated aspect – imagery and its localization in the verse text.
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