THE ART OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN LITERARY DISCOURSE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

The conveyance of emotion in literary texts constitutes one of the most intricate aspects of narrative and poetic art. This study examines the sophisticated techniques through which authors encode affective states into literary discourse, moving beyond mere lexical representation to explore the interplay of stylistic, structural, and cognitive mechanisms. Drawing upon narratology, cognitive poetics, and affective stylistics, this paper analyzes selected works from 19th-century realism, modernist poetry, and postmodern fiction to demonstrate how emotional meaning is constructed and perceived. The findings reveal that emotional impact in literature is not monolithic but arises from a dynamic synthesis of linguistic, rhetorical, and narrative strategies. This research contributes to ongoing discussions in literary semantics and reader-response theory by offering a systematic framework for analyzing emotional expression.