Interpretation of literary

INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXT AS A SUBJECT, ITS AIMS AND TASKS, ITS LINKS WITH OTHER SUBJECTS

Interpretation of the text as a subject comprises a system of met-
hods and devices for grasping the meaning of a belles-lettres text. The object of text Interpretation is literary text. It conveys information from one man to another. The reader's perception of the literary work depends on his knowledge, experience and cultural level (the reader's thesaurus). The main task of text interpretation is to prepare the reader to give a proper evaluation of the literary work and the idea expressed in it.
Text interpretation is a linguistic subject. It is connected with stylistics, literature, philosophy, socialogy, ethics, aesthetics, her- menuetics (the science of interpretation), axiology (the science of significance and values).
The Interpretation of the text undergoes two stages. At the first stage we learn the plot of a book and acquaint ourselves with its characters. At the second we perform the analysis by examining the categories of the text and its language peculiarities. The main categories we shall deal with are: the categories of informativity,. modality, implicitness, segmentation and wholeness (cohesion) of the text.

INFORMATIVITY OF THE TEXT

The category of Informativity is the main category of the text; it is the ability to convey information. We distinguish the following kinds of information: 1) factual (it contains reports about facts, events, processes which take place in the text. It discloses the plot of the text); 2) subtextual information (it is additional information that can be extracted from the text — subcurrent); 3) conceptual information (is reveals the idea of the text by the through out analyses of stylistic and pragmatic facts relevant for Interpretation).
These three kinds of information arc revealed with the help of some elements of foregrounding and poetic details.

MODALITY OF THE TEXT

It implies the author's attitude to his personages and the described reality. It can be explicit when the author describes the events and characters himself or hidden when he entrusts his role to one of the personages, an on-looker, or an eye-witness.
Modality can be expressed directly or indirecty. In the first case the author himself shows his attitude to the personage through his evaluating epithets (e.g. Jack was a brave man and a true friend). In the second case it is the reader who draws conclusions, about the personage's positive and negative traits through the description of his actions by the author.