MODELLING OF REAL AND IMAGINED WORLDIN SHORT STORIES BY EDGAR POE AND HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL
Tsvetkov Yuriy Leonidovich
Ivanovo State University Department of Foreign Literature
Abstract. The narrative features of the short story Cavalry story by Hofmannsthal are investigated. It has the principles of the construction of real and fantastic world similar to the ones in short stories by Edgar Poe: points of view change, personage perception of events, leitmotif development of death theme, reality and subconscious apparitions as the equivalent elements of composition.
Key words and phrases: смена повествовательных ракурсов, персонажная точка зрения, фантастическое и подсознательное, лейтмотив, реминисценция, стилизация, change of narrative foreshortenings, personage point of view, fantastic and subconscious things, leitmotif, reminiscence, stylization
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