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Language Symbolization of Memories in T. Morrison’s Novel 'Beloved'

Language Symbolization of Memories in T. Morrison’s Novel 'Beloved'

Authors :
I. V. Palashevskaya
S. J. Al-Sammarraie
Source :
Научный диалог, Vol 0, Iss 10, Pp 102-117 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Tsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektov, 2018.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of a literary text from the position of presentational discourse theory, axiological linguistics, conceptology. The means of symbolization of memories in the text of the postmodern novel by T. Morrison “Beloved” as an artistic form of remembering culture, objectification of individual and collective memory of the historical trauma of slavery in the United States are considered. The article analyzes the semiotic types of presentemes of events involved in the appearance of symbolic images with stable semantics and in expression of the text value dominants (LOVE, MEMORY, OBLIVION, LIFE, DEATH, FREEDOM). Signs of the events are revealed (including sound, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic, artifact, colour and others) described as “triggers” of memories of individual experience, and the keys to restoring the past of the characters. Special attention is paid to signs-locatives -designations of spaces of connection of traumatic images-triggers of memories. The cognitive mechanisms of object connections (metonymic, adjacent, associative), connected by memory, as well as metaphorical stylization of significant experience and relationships are considered. The author distinguishes involuntary memories of characters as acts of the past revival and arbitrary ones in the form of stories as acts of its comprehension, preservation and integration into collective, supra-individual memory. Attention is also paid to the ethical imperatives of attitude to the past (prescriptions of memory, forgiveness, oblivion).

Details

Language :
Russian
ISSN :
2225756X and 22271295
Issue :
10
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Научный диалог
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.46387585d1f94265b644d2eb93209bf8
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2018-10-102-117