Principles of literary structure cohesion
Imaginative representation of reality has its own principles which cohere all the elements of the text:1. principle of incomplete representation
2. principle of analogy and contrast
3. principle of recurrence
1) in recreation an object or phenomenon of reality the author selects out of an infinity of features obtaining the object only those, which are the most characteristic. All images in a literary text, those of people events, situations, landscapes are incompletely represented. At least two factors condition this. The first factor is linguistic, which means the verbal representation of the image would always differ from reality. The second factor is aesthetic because literature must stir up the readers’ interest.
One way to do this is to make the reader fell in for himself, those parts of the whole, which have been gapped or incompletely represented. The degree of incompleteness depends upon the genre of literary work and upon individual manner of the writing.
It is greater in lyric poetry and smaller in epic works.
2) analogy and contrast are the organizing axis of poetic structure. In this way the author reveals the good and the evil and the beautiful and the ugly just and unjust in life.
Analogy of contrast permeate all the components of the text. Analogy of contrast underlie a number of stylistic devices.
3) Principle of recurrence
When we begin to read a text, we do not yet perceive the complexity of the content contained in it because the verbal layer of the text is direct and superverbal is recursive (the structure of literary text is modeled so that certain elements of the text, which have already occurred in it appear again at definite intervals).
This recurrence of an element may have several functions. One is organizing the subject matter, giving it a dynamic flow. A recurrent element may represent have leitmotif of the literary text. It creates the rhythm of the text.
