Interpretation of literary

Scheme of Interpretation

1. 
   Say a few words about the author and the cultural context.
   
2. 
   Give the factual information of the text, that is, briefly relate the plot of the story.
   
3. 
   Speak on the pragmatic characteristics of the main personages. Extract additional implicit information from the individual speech habits of the characters concerning their educational qualifications, social status, age, origin (foreign or native), emotional state at the moment of speech and kind of general disposition (gay, sad, kind, cruel, restrained uncontrollable, self-confident, timid etc.), their property status, geographic locality etc., etc.
   
4. 
   Characterize the composition of the story and its architectonics (proportional relations of the parts of the text). Point out in what way the composition deviates from the traditional model-'exposition, prologue; beginning of the plot (initial collision) development of the plot; climax; denouement; end; epilogue and what advantages result from it.
   
5. 
   Comment on the category of time and locale of action. It the events in the story are related not in their chronological order and the
   

locale is changed in the text, what retrospective analysis will you make to find the consistency of episodes, that is to trace the realization of the category of time and space in the text?

6. 
   Comment on volume-pragmatic and context-variative segmen- tation of the text (the shape of prose: narration, description, com- mentary, dialogue, non-personal (represented) speech, autodialogue, stream of consciousness, monologue.).
   
7. 
   Comment on the means of cohesion between separate syntactical wholes. Is it established through traditional lexical and grammatical signals or with the help of associations and logical conclusions?
   
8. 
   Comment on the categories of wholeness in the text. What facts and missing links is it necessary [or the reader to conjecture in retrospective analysis in order to establish the sequence of events and the motives of actions, which will secure the continuity of the text?
   

How should the reader accentuate different moments in the text in order to establish their mutual interrelation and synthesize all separate elements of the literary work into one united integrated text?

9. 
   Characterize the category of modality in the text concentrating on the addressee's way of evaluation: Is the story told in the name of the author, or one of the personages, or an on-looker, eyewitness? Is the narrator's attitude explicit or hidden? How does the choice of words reveal the author's attitude? Is his attitude passionate or neutral? Docs he avoid straight-forward evaluations and characterize his personages only through the depiction of their actions or does he characterize them directly?
   
10. 
    Comment on the category of the implicitness. Find the main implicates of the text: 1) an implicit title; 2) implication of precedence;
    

3) implicit details. Say which of them play an important role in revealing conceptual information of the text.

11. 
    Reveal the conceptual information of the text (the idea of the story and substantiate it by picking out from the text:
    

a) poetic- details depicting details, characterological details, '"
authenticity details, implication details-and extract their subcurrent information; b)stylistic. devices and comment on their functions in revealing the author's message and supplementing superlinear information, c) draw conclusions from the linguistic approach to the text. Comment on the degree of richness of the author's vocabulary: the usage of borrowings, foreign words, colloquialisms, vulgarisms, scientific words, neologisms. Is the author experimenting with] the
language? What unusual word combinations and nonce word? has he coined?
Find thematic and key words. Reveal the role of stylistically marked words and words charged with emotive meaning. Trace cases of repetition of the same word. Does frequent repetition of a word make it symbolic?
d) comment on the meaning of the title and connect it with the conceptual information.
The suggested scheme includes nearly all possible characteristics relevant for text interpretation. It must be noted that each concrete text requires specific approach and some items may prove optional in its analysis.