DISCOURSE OF IDENTITY IN “SPARE” BY PRINCE HARRY: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE

The article examines memoir "Spare" by Prince Harry as an example of autodocumentary literature with a specific focus on its stylistic features.While existing research into memoirs often centres on studying genre specificity, historical context, or psychological interpretation, this study changes the focus to narrative style and discourse strategies used to express the narrator's personal identity and emotional inner conflict.The memoir is interpreted not merely as a sequence of events, but as an elaborately constructed narrative in which stylistic devices convey the deep inner struggles of the author.The analysis highlights a range of stylistic devices employed in "Spare", such as questionsin-the-narrative, ellipses, parcellation and parallel constructions.These devices are shown to reflect the narrator's psychological state and evolving self-perception.Questions-in-the-narrative are used to articulate doubt, emotional dilemmas or inner dialogues.Ellipses introduce hesitation and emotional pauses, intensifying the memoir's confessional tone.Parcellation breaks sentences into short fragments, creating emotional impact, emphasizing irony, tension or indignation.Parallelism, often combined with antithesis, contrasts royal duty with personal freedom, tradition with emotional need of the narrator.Additionally, the article explores the graphic layout of the text in which short lines and isolated sentences reflect emotional state and vulnerability of the narrator.The stylistic analysis reveals that "Spare" portrays a prolonged inner struggle of the narrator.Through stylistic devices Prince Harry crafts a personal story that challenges royal norms and demonstrates the conflicted inner world of "the Spare Prince".Future research can include examining the rhetoric of conflict within the text, the linguistic representation of themes such as royal duty and tradition, coding of royal identity, the emotional struggle of the narrator, and the broader social and cultural context of the memoir.