Lecture 6 Interpretation of the text as a subject. Its aims, tasks and ties with other subjects. Literary text as a Poetic Structure. Plan

Principle of incomplete representation
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Author in re-creating an object or phenomenon of reality selects out of an 
infinity of features pertaining to the object only those which are most characteristic.
In other words , a literary image represents features that are most characteristic of 
an object or which at least , seems such to the author.
Principle of analogy and contrast
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Analogy and contrast are known to be universal principles of cognition. It is 
by analogy that the essence of a phenomenon is revealed. The similar and the 
contrastive in different phenomena discovered. 
In literature analogy – contrast is a way of imaginative cognition. The author 
contra- and juxtaposes images of real life in that way reveals the good and the evil 
, the beautiful and the ugly, the just and the unjust of the life. 
Analogy and contrast are the organizing axis of poetic structure. They 
permeate the whole text, all its components , both macro- and micro- : the character 
and the events representation the imagery.
Principle of recurrence. 
When we read a literary text our thoughts does not run in just one , onward , 
direction. Its movement is both progressive and recursive: from the given item it 
goes on to the next with a return to what has been previously stated. This peculiar 
movement of the thought is conditioned by the fact that the literary text represents 

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a cohesion of two layers the verbal and the supraverbal. The supraverbal layer is 
not coincident with the strictly verbal layer. The verbal is direct , linear, the 
supraverbal is essentially recursive.
Poetic structure of the literary text is so modeled that certain of its elements 
which have already occurred in the text recur again at definite intervals. These 
recurrent elements may be a poetic detail , an image , a phrase, a word.