PHENOMENON «MUSICAL EXISTENCE» IN ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON THE WORKS OF A. BURGESS)

Abstract

Тhe article examines the phenomenon of «Musical Existence», represented in the literary texts of Anthony Burgess, analyzes the features of music verbalization as an agent and patient. The research was carried out using such methods as the contextual analysis method, the semantic-cognitive modeling method, the classifi cation method, and the quantitative method. Contexts were selected based on the presence of the lexeme «music». It has been established that one of the key components of the verbal representation of the phenomenon «Musical Existence» in the literary texts of A. Burgess is the study of the lexeme «music» through the prism of subject-and-object relations. It was revealed that the object meanings of the lexeme in focus prevail: music is considered as an object in 62 % of contexts, while as the subject − in 38 %. In the studied material, a variety of object meanings of the lexeme «music» is distinguished: music as an object of creative activity (29 %), an object of action (20 %), an object of causative state (15 %), an object of speech-thinking activity (12 %), an object of perception (10 %), an object of ownership (6 %), an object-instrument of action (4 %) and an object-committee (4 %). Music as an object includes the following aspects: 1) psychophysical; 2) emotional-and-psychological; 3) hedonistic; 4) moraland-ethical; 5) intelligent; 6) suggestive. The following subject meanings of the lexeme «music» in the texts of A. Burgess are distinguished: music as a subject of action, agent (50 %), subject-carrier of the sign (25 %), subject-causer of action (9 %), subject-accomplice of action (8 %), existential subject (6 %) and subject of relational activity (2 %). The main verbal-cognitive indicators of music as an agent are the following characteristics: 1) emotional-psychological; 2) psychophysical; 3) sensualistic; 4) hedonistic; 5) physiological; 6) physical. Thus, music, acting as a leading (subject) and driven (object) entity, correlates with key aspects of human life, such as «feeling», «health», «sensation», «emotion», «society», «morality/ethics», «intelligence», «psyche» and others. The dominant elements of the lexeme «music» in the context of the phenomenon «Musical Existence» to a greater extent reveal the individually marked signs of music characteristic of the works of art by A. Burgess.