INTERTEXTUALITY AS A TEXT CATEGORY AND FEATURES OF INTERTEXTUAL RELATIONS IN AN ENGLISH LITERARY FAIRY TALE

Abstract

The article deals with the notion of “intertexuality” as a singular text category that performs a range of important functions, in particular integrating and content-forming. Much attention has been paid to a pragmatic aspect of intertexuality that is viewed as a specific correlating strategy with some other (earlier created) texts, as well as a mode of actualizing a different text or its parts in an inner space of a new text, expressing an author’s purport. Texts of literary fairytales belong to the so called dynamic models of text organization (R. Green). Dynamic models target at the receiver, being based on the associations and text openness. Architextuality or text correlation to genre is vital, as any fairytale roots from a national folklore heritage. The impact of a folklore tale can be traced on the level of literary tale composition, its constituent elements and their correlation.