PECULIARITIES OF EXPRESSING SUBTEXT IN A LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The scientific research is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of expressing subtext in a literary text. Understanding the text is connected with the disclosure of a literary text meaning. The emergence and development of subtext in literary works are connected with the peculiarities of the processes of general development of literature, reflection of contemporary issues, ideological conflicts, literary and artistic polemics, etc. Important characteristics of the text are integrity, coherence, informativeness, structure, divisibility and dialogicity. A literary text contains content-factual, content-conceptual, and content-subtextual information and performs aesthetic, ethical, and cognitive functions. Understanding a literary text is a complex intellectual and emotional process. The surface meaning ensures the perception of the external form of the text and the understanding of the direct meaning. The deep meaning is associated with understanding the indirect meaning, the subtext. The following levels of understanding of literary texts are distinguished: linguistic level, which is the most superficial; interpretation, which is a deeper level of text understanding and is associated with the identification of those text characteristics that correspond to the semantic structures of the reader and make a good impression on him; comprehension of meaning, which is the third level of understanding of a literary text and helps to comprehend the essence of what the work is about and find out what the author of the work wanted, what motives guided him and what tasks he set himself when creating the text; the fourth level of text understanding is the process of realising the content, which involves not only the author and his work, but also the connections between the content of the text and trends in social development, which makes the text seem to be immersed in a historical and cultural context.