Interpretation of literary

participated in the war, got a wound and began taking treatments in a 
hospital. The generalization of meaning is connected with the second 
implicit layer, implied by the given title, and demands decoding a 
multitude of meaningful elements in the. As a result we derive the 
second meaning of the title: the American belongs to a group of people 
wounded and mutilated by the war, the group, which is now alienated 
from the people left intact of the war and sorrow. The third meaning of 
the title denotes an opposition between the military people and the 
population of the country and an estranged and hostile attitude of the 
civilians to the officers. 
An implicit title plays an important role in literary texts because 
after the final retrospective explication it becomes an extremely 
capacious expression of the author's point of view, derived from the text 
thanks to interpretation. 
b) implication of precedence.
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It denotes such compositional 
structure of a literary text which gives the reader an impression that he is 
a witness of some continued story and the preceding events, facts 
and personages are supposed to be familiar. Implication of precedence 
is realized with the help of such implicates as the initial definite article 
opening the text, initial usage of personal and demonstrative pronouns 
and other synsemantic elements, producing the impression of "beginning 
from the middle", increasing the dynamism of narration and deep-hidden 
tension. As an illustration of the implication of precedence we'll take the 
first sentence from the above-mentioned story by E. Hemingway: "In the 
fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more", which 
introduces the reader deep into the story. 
c) an implicit detail. This term unites a multitude of implicates, 
which mark the external characteristics of a phenomenon, intimating its 
deep-lying meaning. Thus in the story by E.Hemingway "In another 

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country", which is saturated by implicit details, one of the most 
significant for the correct understanding of the idea is the following: 
Over the medical machines for the treatment of mutilated joints of the 
war invalids the doctor hung photographs which were to inspire the 
patients with optimism and belief in the restoration of the lost functions. 
"But the major... only looked out of the window... "Adequate 
interpretation of the text depends on the correct decoding of this 
implicate. The analysis shows that the major paid no attention to the 
photographs, because he didn't believe in the beneficial effect of the 
machines; he regularly came to the hospital not so much for the 
treatment, but for keeping company with other invalids, which gave him 
relief, particularly when he was depressed by his personal grief — he 
had just buried his wife.