| Abstract [eng] |
The role of tree has been analyzed by specialists of folklore, mythology, art, literature, and linguistics. The object of this research is the novel “Forests” by Marius Katiliškis. For the analysis 80 fragments of the text have been selected: the sentences in which lexical units ascribed to the semantic fi eld of tree. After the analysis of empirical material, by means of location, aspects of text coherence and discussion of stylistic figures, the following conclusions could be drawn: 1. The views of forest is a dominating space of narration: the main events which occurred to the actor took place or are taking place in a forest, outskirts, houses built in the outskirts. In the novel under analysis, it is possible to distinguish present (narration) and past (reminiscence, experience of crime conducted a few decades ago) time margins. In the work, by means of the view of forest and trees, both the season (winter, spring, and summer) and a day time are described. Forest is a place of the main actor’s happiest moments of life, work and sorrowful reminiscences. The novel is embedded in a bright psychological (explicit and even more often implicit) context. 2. By means of lexical units of the semantic field of the noun tree, the text is related both in a contact and remote way. There are pure, but more often impure cases of repetition. The composition of the novel is circular: in the whole text, remotely repeated form of the noun trees is the title of the work. The novel is finished with a pure repetition of this form. 3. After the analysis of the stylistic figures, in which lexical units of semantic fi eld of the noun tree are used, the conclusion could be drawn that they have various epithets, make part of similes, metaphors and metonymies, but most often are personified. Thus the tree in the novel is not only the background of events, but also another character. |
