Pecularities of Postmodern Text and the Influence on Onomasiological Space

Abstract

V. Kozhelianko is an outstanding representative of Ukrainian postmodernism. By the defining characteristics of post modernism we know a combination of different stylistic tendencies, partial opposition to a tradition, universality of problems, timelessness and spaceless of an image, epatage, function change of an author and a hero, the concept of an independent person, aspiration for archaic, myth, collective unconscious, an aspiration to unite the truths of different nations, cultures, religions, philosophies, irony, parody etc. In a contemporary postmodern literature the main focus is on the individual way of artist's writing, his own vision of a human and world, in literature works is often combined a convulsive beauty, capricious elegance, an aspiration to disharmony and deformation, ailing fantastic and absurd, inventive eroticism. Spiritual tension, search for “an inner idea”, existentialism are important components of modern literature. The irony is considered as a style-forming feature of postmodern text, which can be implemented in different language levels, from a single word, a single statement to a single text in a compulsory conceptual environment. V. Kozhelianko use the orthonyms in a postmodern way: proper names in hus literature texts are ironic, intimational, quite often have intertextual function, a lot of mythonyms, diffrent-styled onomastics phenomena - from reduced-vernacular, dialect to pompous-patriotic.Literature texts of V.Kozhelianko of so called “defilade” cycle (“Defilade in Moscow”, “Konotop”, “A little man of Mr. God) represent the best examples of creation process and orthonym usage by the author. We believe, that studying of onomastic phenomena of his literature texts would encourage a deeper understanding onomastic creative works of V.Kozhelianko and postmodernism in general as well.