Text categories as a basis for comparison of variants of the belles-lettres text

The theory of equivalence as one of the major theories in Translation Studies has to be significantly developed in the aspect of the text approach as essentially different from any language-level approach. In the research on the basis of the category-text analysis of the topic, chronotope, and modality it is proposed to establish equivalence of Russian target texts and the English source text, i.e. the bucolic elegy The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by K. Marlowe. The comparative analysis of the texts is testing of the contrastive-categorial model which will be further used for extensive text structures.