Abstract: The present research is carried out in line with literary stylistics, focusing on the linguistic and expressive means of artistic representation of reality and the peculiarities of their use by one or another author. The research material was the novel "Decline and Destruction", written by one of the recognized masters of the English satirical novel Evelyn Waugh. The "Decline and Destruction" of twentieth–century England is a cross-cutting theme of the entire work of I. Vo, whose stylistic dominant is the satirical grotesque. The above-mentioned determined the purpose of the study, which consists in explicating the main mechanisms and means of creating a satirical grotesque in the novel, exposing and ridiculing the vices of English society in the 1920s, sharpening and criticizing the shortcomings of the existing education system in privileged educational institutions in England.   In accordance with this goal, the article considers the problem of the emergence of the term "grotesque", its connection with the aesthetic category of the comic is indicated, the role and place of this artistic device in the work of I. Vo are indicated. It is revealed that with the help of a satirical grotesque, Vo creates his own special – secondary to the real – world, violating the boundaries corresponding to our ideas of plausibility, for which any means available to the author are suitable. The study showed that the key mechanisms determining the grotesque beginning of the novel are a combination of mutually exclusive, hyperbolization, reification of characters, etc. A special satirical expressiveness and tragicomism, brought to the point of absurdity, is manifested at various levels of the work's organization (lexical, onomastic, morphological, syntactic, graphic). From this point of view, the novel "Decline and Destruction" is being studied for the first time, which determines the novelty of the research undertaken and outlines further prospects in the field of research devoted to the work of Evelyn Waugh and the satirical grotesque, in particular.

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the explication of key meanings in the ekphrastic novel by Oscar Wilde “Picture of Dorian Gray” through the prism of emotional state and attitude of the protagonist in the situation of perception of his own portrait. Structured by antithetic principles novel is based on the semantic dominant of wonderful / disgraceful. The wonderful implies beauty and youth of Dorian and is opposed to his soul and morality, experiencing fatal transformations associated with the moral decay of personality. Thus, the object of research becomes the semantic dominant of wonderful / disgraceful alongside additional key meanings (semantic antinomies) it is based upon. The subject of research is the linguistic markers of focalization of key essences in the portrait ekphrasis, which resemble the character’s evaluation and comprehension of such categories as wonderful / disgraceful, beauty / ugliness, youth / old age, etc. Focalization is viewed as one of the cognitive mechanisms of ekphrasis, which emphasizes most significant from the character’s perspective information that translates his subjective, emotionally colored attitude to the object of perception. Determination of the key meanings is achieved through accumulation of linguistic means, namely lexical-semantic markers and markers of nonverbal communication code. Such means enhance the expressiveness and focus attention of the audience on the sharp comparison of the concepts and images, highlighting the main motif, semantic dominant that serves as the foundation for the entire novel.

Abstract: The article presents the research experience in the aspect of intermedia correlation of poetry, sculpture, and music. The object of the study is the English ekphrasis of the statue  - immobility, and motion. The fundamental purpose of the present study is to identify the main factors (linguistic, extralinguistic) in the discourse space of ekphrasis, revealing the contradictions between the form and its content, and determining the process of transformation of the semiotic beginning of the statue into a single aesthetic whole. The study showed that the opposition of immobility to motion, realized in the binary opposition "lifeless matter – a living being", is represented by multi-level linguistic means (lexical, morphological, syntactic), as well as a number of techniques of artistic expression. It is revealed that the inclusion in the discourse of markers, explicating the interaction of verbal and plastic, mainly enhances the effect of immobility, while the intermedial interaction of verbal and musical creates the illusion of motion, vital activity of the statue. At the same time, the depicted referent appears before the reader not only as an object of semiotic and aesthetic development. In ekphrasis of the statue can be traced two main motive (the motive animating images and enigmatically motive mysteries) that contribute to the development of the hermeneutic of ekphrasis – its interpretation, reflection as a unified stylistic harmony. Appealing to the background knowledge of the reader, ekphrasis determines the variability of its readings, thus producing a process of artistic communication, a kind of "dialogue" with the reader, as a result of which the intermedial poetic discourse is enriched with new meanings.