Trubenko I. Literary Metonymy and its Discourse Potential in English Modernist Prose by Virginia Woolf and David Herbert Lawrence

This thesis focuses on the study of formation and functioning of literary metonymies as conceptually and verbally relevant units in English modernist fiction viewed from a cognitive poetic perspective. The research suggests an integral approach that combines conceptual, contextual, stylistic, and quantitative approaches to determining discourse and textual potential of metonymy in English literary discourse. The paper presents a context-level realization model of literary metonymy, which provides access to the tendencies of metonymic contextual peculiarities in micro-, macro- and megacontexts. The dissertation defines and differentiates textual and discourse functions of literary metonymy in V. Woolf's and D. H. Lawrence's literary works. Specificity of literary metonymy realization through the prism of individual artistic picture of the world has been outlined. The typology of conceptual metonymic models in their literary manifestation has been concretized.