The figurative and expressive methods of imagination: accentuation and combining.

18) The figurative and expressive methods of imagination: accentuation and combining.

Imagination by its nature is figurative, productive, free. Its figurative and expressive techniques in the art are reduced to the methods of the imagination: accentuation and combining. Accentuation is the selection, condensation, exaggeration. Combination assumes connection, synthesis of diverse elements into a new artistic structure (the centaur, sphinx).

 

 

19) The artistic image /character/type. Give characteristics.

The artistic image, as well as whole literary work, is the result of consecutive stages of creative act: selection, evaluation, generalization, artistic realization. On the other hand, the artistic image is the result of dialectic unity of typical and individual. The type (a print, the form, the sample) is the concept designating the generalized image of human individuality definite in its society and at its time. Character in literature is a complete image of the person, character in life is an individual and specific combination of essential and steady characteristics of the personality appearing in behavior of the person, in his relation to people, to the world as a whole. The type bears in itself the most essential traits of character or the public phenomenon. Character is a combination of individual traits of the personality and its essential sides. The image –is expressive, that is it expresses the ideological and emotional relation of the author to a subject, it is turned not only to mind, but also to feelings of the reader.