Stylistics and text interpretation

Subjective modality

• Subjective evaluating modality correlates with the author's point of view and a psychological point of view. Modality manifests itself not only in the shape of narration, but also and mainly in the author's individual selection of language means.
• Thus the notion of subjective-evaluating modality comes into close contact with the concept of the "author's image".

Objective modality

• The brief description of textual modality shows that this category in application to the units, exceeding sentence limits, cardinally changes its designation even in the subjective-evaluating plane. Out of the two kinds of modally-objective and subjective— the first one, according to l.R.Galperin, is not inherent' in literary texts in general. Moreover, most frequently objective — modal meaning confines itself only to a sentence. The relation of reality Irreality is not pertinent to fiction texts at all, so long as fiction texts give only depicted reality. These works are a fruit of a writer's imagination, the fancy of a poet, of a dramatist. The less we notice conventionality in depicting reality, the greater is the

Implicitness of the text

• The problem of the implicit acquires a special significance in studying literary texts, as the essense of imaginative literature lies in the fact, that its ideas are expressed by means of images, i.e. smth. abstract is expressed by means of smth. concrete. Consequently that means that literary texts should consist of two layers or two levels: the obvious surface layer (explicit) and the deep-lying, concealed layer (implicit). Moreover the implicit layer may have different levels which results in different degrees of grasping the meaning by different readers (addressees).

Types of implicates in belles-lettres text we distinguish the following:

An implicit title. It expresses in a concentrated form the main idea or theme of a literary production and requires for its realization the macrocontext of the whole work., An implicit title is a framing sign, requiring obligatory conclusive consideration after reading the complete literary text- It increments the volume of its meaning at the expense of a multitude of contextual meanings. The content meaning of a title at the entrance into the text never coincides with its meaning at the exit from the text.