Literary image
The term image refers not only to characters but also to any of the text units such as phrase, poetic detail, ect. All images in a literary work are in hierarchical interrelation.At the top of that hierarchy is the marco-image. The literary work itself is understood as image of life, visualized and depicted by the author. At the bottom of hierarchy is the macro-image (e.g. epithet, simile, metaphor).
Together with other elements micro-images (event, character images), each image is isolation is just a trope but within poetic structure it is an element, which equally with others shares in the expression of the content. An important part of a literary text is the image of the author and image of the reader.
The notion of the author image was introduced in the 1920s by Vynogradow. The image of the author can be explicit and implicit.
The reader is usually an observer of what happens in literary text. However sometimes the author involves the readers in the world of the story by means of second person narration and there appears an imaginary reader. When the author identifies the reader with one of his characters, it helps him to create the effect of emotional coexperience.
