Marking Intertextuality in the Artistic Discourse of the Twentieth Century

The article is devoted to the study of marking intertextual inclusions in literary discourse in order to reveal the semantic and functional potential of implicit and explicit markers of intertextuality in the works of American and English writers of the twentieth century. The analysis of intertextuality in artistic discourse helped to identify intertextual markers and determine the means of their representation, systematize intertextual inclusions and establish their discursive and functional potential. The research material was based on the novels "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon and "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters" by Julian Barnes. The research methodology involved the method of close reading to analyze the structure of the novels, the method of textual analysis of the selected works, the methods of linguistic and intertextual analysis to identify and describe different types of intertextuality and intertextual relations, the method of intermedial analysis to establish semantic connections between intertextual elements belonging to related arts, the semantic stylistics method to describe linguistic and stylistic resources and their semantics, the deconstruction method for identifying indirect intertextual connections between interacting texts. The criteria for identification and typologization of intertextual markers are developed: direct and indirect. The peculiarities of semantics and functioning of intertextual markers in the analyzed corpus of material are outlined. The results of the study are based on the development of the author's taxonomy of direct and indirect markers of intertextuality, which will allow to assess the impact of the level of reader's competence on the understanding of literary texts.