Verbal and superverbal layers of the literary text
The words of literary text combine into phrases, phrases into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs making up larger passages, chapters, sections, parts. All these represent the verbal layer of literary text.At the same time we cannot but see another layer, gradually emerging out of these sequences. Words represent a series of events, conflicts and circumstances of the literary work happen to hind themselves.
Word sequences make up composition, plot genre and style. They serve to create an image or reality through which the author conveys his message and his vision of the world. Plot, theme, composition genre, style and image constitute the supraverbal layer of the text, which is nevertheless revealed in verbal sequences.
The supra- and superverbal layers are inseparable from each other and their cohesion makes up the poetic structure of poetic text.
