LINGUAL STYLISTIC FEATURES OF F. BERNETT’S NOVELS AS A REFLECTION OF THE WRITER’S IDIOSTYLE.

Abstract

The article is focused on the study of linguo-stylistic features of the Anglo-American writer Frances Burnett idiostyle based on the novels "A little Princess" and "The Secret Garden". In the course of the study, it was defined that flourishing of children's literature in the XIXth - 1st part of the XXth century was due to a number of cultural factors that contributed to the emergence of a large number of authors whose work from the point of view of ideological, thematic and linguistic aspects was focused on children. No less important in this process was the establishment of traditions of home reading and the desire of adults to form aesthetic tastes in their children. Being both a representative of the neo-romantic trend and a children's writer, Frances Burnett rethinks traditional, even fairy-tale plots and builds a world whose image has a symbolic meaning (e.g. a garden for Mary, a boarding house for Sarah). A characteristic feature of F. Burnett's novels is the depiction of the world of childhood, realized through portrait characteristics that convey the characters' external and internal world, descriptions of landscapes and interiors that reproduce various emotional states. It was found out that to realize her own ideas, the writer uses epithets, in particular, to emphasize the specific features of the characters and to raise the emotional tension. The use of metaphors makes it possible to decorate the text with vivid pictures of nature and make images poetic, while thanks to comparisons and repetitions, the author reveals psychological states and focuses on strong emotions. The paper draws the conclusion that specific linguo-stylistic means belong to specific features of Frances Burnett's idiostyle, which make her work stand out among a large number of other authors and make it popular in the genre of children's literature. Keywords: children’s literature; idiostyle; individual style; linguostilistic means; epithet; simile; psychological portrait.