LITERARY STYLISTICS
Genre. A story or a novel may belong to one of the genres: social, psychological, scientific, historical, detective, documentary.
A historical story usually deals with the events and characters drown from the past;
The social genre studies the effect of social conditions at a given time and place upon human life and content;
Psychological genre is concerned mainly with the mental and emotional lives of the characters;
Detective genre is the type in which usually a murder problem is solved;
Scientific genre deals with advances in science and their influence on human beings. Sometimes the background of the text is quite fantastic and there is no connection with reality.
Documentary story contains real events as close to reality as possible. It’s main task being to involve the reader in some vital issue of the moment.
Composition. The interrelation between different components of literary work is called composition. Any fiction text consists of a combination of relatively independent pieces of narrative: narration, description, dialogue, interior monologue.
Narration is dynamic; it gives continuous account of events while description is static, it’s a verbal portraiture of an object, person or scene. Narration may be detailed and direct or impressionistic, giving few but striking details.
Narration is never homogeneous as to the form and content of the information it carries. Both very much depend on the view point of the addresser, writer as the author and its characters may offer different perception of the reality described.
Dialogue is a piece of the text in which personages express their minds in the form of uttered speech. In their exchange of remarks, the characters while discussing other people expose themselves too. Dialogue is important form of the personage’s self-characterization. It allows the author to seemingly eli
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