CARNIVAL STYLISTIC OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE BESTIARY (AS EXEMPLIFIED IN ANIMALISTIC FAIRY TALE ABOUT REINEKE FOX).

Abstract

The article is devoted to the animalistic fairy tale features represented for the first time from the point of carnival worldview reflected through specific kind of poetics – the Carnival poetics. The analysis of special literature, devoted to the problem of carnival science proved the absence of a common opinion among scientists in terms of solving this problem.

There are considered the works of the modern philologists W. Propp, S. Karpenko, N. Dusina, who explore а carnival discourse; there are defined approaches to the carnival aesthetics of fiction. It is characterized the main parameter of carnival discourse, for an example, a material and physical bottom, an interruption of binary oppositions, a familiar parole …

The reference spheres «landscape», «body», «meal» are dominant in a fairy-tale. The names of personages contain in the morpheme structure word-formation formants that characterize the awkwardness of one personages and carnival self-will of others and specify on a carnival action. Events are depicted as absurd, they are saturated with alogisms, there are violations of ontological and cause-effect norms. The factual material, that has been analyzed, proves fully the hypothesis of carnival origin and the carnival nature of German animalistic fairy tales. It is identified, that the stylistics of fairy tales contributes to implementation of comic modality and is aimed at the creation of carnival atmosphere in a literary work. The linguistic means of all language levels contribute to this process – beginning with portrait vocabulary, word-formative, phraseological if this is about the elements of language game and ending with textual and logic-situational level. On the text level there are various stylistic marks, for example epithet, antithesis, comparison and so on, the application of which creates the incongruity in animalistic fairy tale about Reineke Fox.