STYLISTIC POTENTIAL OF NOMINAL SENTENCES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE POSTMODERN TEXT (BASED ON THE WORKS BY YURIY IZDRYK)

Fictional postmodern texts are often a linguistic mosaic of the everyday life, glued together using fragments of different perspectives on the events depicted in the text, reflected through a complex inner world of a character, mixed with various linguistic tools, supplemented with quotations and stylistic techniques that help to focus on the details necessary to the author. The postmodern text is an unstoppable movement. It is a painting of the world through its sounds, smells, and tactile sensations. It is sometimes hyperbolized and at other times reduced and belittled. It is a carnival in all its majesty or ugliness. Nominal sentences help to give these texts the rhythm required by the author (and this is also an important component of texts of this style), to combine a collage from the pool of separate pictures (by which it resembles a movie script), or to quote precedent texts to create the necessary associative connections. Yuriy Izdryk actively uses nominal sentences in both prose and poetry. The nominal sentences perform both the usual stylistic function ‒ to convey the nominated existence, and a specifically postmodern one ‒ to create a gradation effect, build the text around the sound (such as a particular letter, and combinations of sounds), create the effect of the presence of the reader in the storyline. In nominal sentence the author informs about the existence of a certain reality and often add a grammatical modifier (Izdrik often uses nouns in various indirect cases as the grammatical modifiers) thus increasing both functional and grammatical complexity of the sentence and directing attention the reader to the ideas important for the author and creating the effect similar to that of a movie script. The reader perceives a series of nominative sentences as the movement of a camera in a movie, a list of objects on the stage where the main events take place. Then, from all of the above, the reader will put all the puzzles together in his imagination ‒ this is perhaps the main feature of postmodern texts.