A complex of stylistic means in T. Mann's works (on the material of the novel «Buddenbrooks»)

The article regards some peculiar literary style features of T. Mann, a famous German prose writer of the second half of past century. The authors study the character of stylistic means, used to create images and emotional expression in the author`s descriptions of historic events, episodes, particular personages on the base of his widely known novel «Buddenbrooks». The results of multiaspect analysis of lexical material carried out in the frame of given research prove T. Mann`s literary language is distinguished by a great variety of metaphoric, descriptive, color epithets, antitheses, hyberbolas, comparisons, etc., used to characterize individual physical, psychological, behavior features of different heroes, as well as for creating a general narrative, event background of the work. In this connection, in describing surroundings, situations, some particular events, impressions the author appeals not only to various trope devices, but also to stylistic figures, such as: asyndeton, complex and complicated syntactic structures, periods, nonpersonal phrases, gradations, rhetorical questions and exclamations, etc., designed to perform cognitive, nominative as well as imageexpressive functions. The material of this study seems to present interest for researchers in the fields of stylistics, theory of literature, history and be used in teaching such subjects as: «The history of German literature», «Literature», «Stylistics of German».