Reflection of the concept "memory" in literature
The concept "memory" and stylistic devices as the objects of linguistic research. Memory and causal connectedness. Realization of the concept "memory" and peculiarities of use of lexical stylistic devices in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
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"But we didn't sail into the world of golden sunset: we went slap into that old punt where the gentlemen were fishing"
Thus in Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" the first paragraph is practically built on opposing pairs.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, if was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we are all going direct the other way..." (Dickens)
Antithesis is a device bordering between stylistics and logic. The extremes are easily discernible but most of the cases are intermediate. However, it is essential to distinguish between antithesis arid what is termed contrast. Contrast is a literary (not a linguistic) device based on logical opposition between the phenomena set one against another. Here is a good example of contrast.
THE RIVER
"The river--with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing shadows o'er the shallows, flinging diamonds from the mill-wheels, throwing kisses to the lilies, wantoning with the weir's white waters, silvering moss-grown walls and bridges, brightening every tiny townlet, making sweet each lane and meadow, lying tangled in the rushes, peeping, laughing, from each inlet, gleaming gay on many a far sail, making soft the air with glory--is a golden fairy stream.
But the river--chill and weary, with the ceaseless rain drops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with the sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber, while the woods all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin, silent ghosts with eyes reproachful like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected-- is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets." (Jerome K. Jerome)
The two paragraphs are made into one long span of thought by the signal But and the repetition of the word river after which in both cases a pause is indicated by a dash which suggests a different intonation pattern of the word river. The opposing members of the contrast are the 'sunlight flashing'--'ceaseless rain drops falling'; 'gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths'-- 'the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapor, stand like ghosts...'; 'golden fairy stream'--'spirit-haunted water'.
Still there are several things lacking to show a clear case of a stylistic device, viz. the words involved in the opposition do not display any additional nuance of meaning caused by being opposed one to another; there are no true parallel constructions except, perhaps, the general pattern of the two paragraphs, with all the descriptive parts placed between the grammatical subject and predicate, the two predicates serving as a kind of summing up, thus completing the contrast.
'The river... is a golden fairy stream.'--'But the river ... is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets.' The contrast embodied in these two paragraphs is, however, akin to the stylistic device of antithesis.
memory lexical stylistic device
Biblography
1.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/
2. Astrid Erll, Memory in Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 p. 21-33) amp; Olateju, M. (eds.) Readings in Language and Literature. Ile-Ife: OAU Press Ltd.
4. Babajide A.O. (2000). “Of Style and Stylistics”. In Babajide, A.O. (ed.) Studies in English Language. Ibadan: Enicrownfit Publishers (312-344).
5.Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age, trans. Assenka Oksiloff (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, p.345-348).
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