Literary text categories
Categories of literary text analysisLiterary text categories
1) category of segmentation manifests itself through the literary text division into parts, chapters, paragraphs that are characterized by formal and compositional autonomy
2) category of connectedness is realized through cohesion (formal connectedness and coherence (content connectedness)).
3) category of prospection is associated with the plot development, which can be prospective or cataphoric (looking towards the future; realized by means of flash-forwards) and retrospective or anaphoric (looking towards the past) realized by means of flashbacks.
4) category of retrospection
5) category of anthropocentricity is reflected through the subordination of the text to the task of person characterization
6) category of local-temporal reference of the text is expressed through the system of tenses and lexical time markers as well as place description
7) category of conceptuality accounts for the embodiment of social, moral, aesthetic ideas of a literary work, which constitute its concept
8) category of informativity is responsible for information stratification into: factual, conceptual and implicit (or subtext)
9) category of systemic character is attributed to the literary text because its macro and microelements and functions integrate in a closed system that serves a specific purpose. Pecularities: no element exists independently; limited in time and space; its constituents cannot be developed, substituted, removed
10) category of integrity and completeness differentiated a text from a non-text
11) category of modality is the result of the author’s subjective interpretation of reality
12) category of pragmatic orientation consists in stimulating the reader’s feedback – intellectual and emotional reactions
Categories of time, space, person – literary text universals, everything that is described in the texts described with the purpose of distinguishing a person.
