Mytholoric and literary image as ethnocultural type.

Abstract

The article focuses on such concepts of linguistic analysis of literary text as «imaginary», «system of images», «literary image». As basic it is taken the definition of literary image as the form of reflecting the reality, experience and knowledge of people, that has its sensible ground oriented to the emotional character of expressing the thought. On the material of American Indian literary texts of the XX – XXI c. the article reveals the literary images, which are classified as mytholoric and literary images. Mytholoric and literary images are defined in the article as linguistic and cognitive textual construal, which incorporates the cultural codes, interiorized through author’s consciousness and verbalized in the text by lingual and expressive means appropriate to the author’s idiolect and idiostyle. As factual material it is taken the novel-myth «House Made of Dawn» by Scott Momaday and novel «Ceremony» by Leslie Marmon Silko, contemporary American Indian writers. There are suggested cognitive and semiotic mechanisms (metamorphose) of forming the mytholoric and literary images, narrative methods (reverse perspective) of their embodying into the literary space of the texts. Highlighting linguistic features of mytholoric and literary images made it possible to refer them to ethnocultural type «the knight at the crossroads».