Hierarchy of Titles in a Literary Text (On the Material of the Story “We Will Be Cured” by E. Y. Lukin)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2025-1-33-44
Abstract
Aim. To investigate functional and semantic aspects of the hierarchy of titles in the story of the Volgograd fiction writer E. Yu. Lukin “We will be cured” (2008).
Methodology. The question is raised about the need to study the hierarchy of titles in a literary text. Based on the material of E. Y. Lukin’s text, the hierarchy of titles is analyzed, in particular, the functions of internal headings and intra-textual biblionyms, their connections with the key anthroponym Artem. The main research methods are: 1) descriptive and analytical, represented by a set of the following techniques: observation, comparison, generalization; commenting and interpretation of the analyzed material; 2) aspectual, represented by functional, contextual and intertextual analysis.
Results. The author proposes a formal scheme of the hierarchy of title elements in a literary text. According to the author, the hierarchy is formed by the pre-text biblionym, intratext biblionym, and internal title (the name of the structural part of the work: volume, part, chapter, act). The functions of intratext biblionyms and internal titles in the story are revealed: comic, plot-forming, characterological, allusive, text-forming, manipulative.
Research implications. The study clarifies the idea of the functioning of biblionyms in the literary text, develops the theory of the title.
About the Author
V. V. Dashchinskiy
Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladislav V. Dashchinskiy – Postgraduate Student, Department of Russian Language and its Teaching Methodology
ul. Lenina 27, Volgograd 400005, Volgograd region
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