Stylistic features of a literary text from the translation perspective (based on the novella “The Chimes” by Charles Dickens)

The research aims to describe the stylistic devices used by Charles Dickens in the novella “The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In”, identifying the translation solutions chosen to render the said stylistic devices into Russian. The paper examines the stylistic devices at the lexical, syntactic, and phonetic levels, as well as studies the methods of translating the units under consideration into Russian. The research analyzes the features of the translation of the identified stylistic devices in the target text of the novella. The work is original in that it is the first one to conduct a comprehensive, multi-level study of the stylistic devices in Charles Dickens’s novella “The Chimes” from the translation perspective. As a result of the research, it was determined that the stylistic devices identified at the lexical level are the most frequent ones in the text of the novella, with similes being the most recurrent. The translator often resorts to the use of calquing to render the identified stylistic devices, thereby trying to preserve the stylistic content and expressiveness of the original work.