PRECEDENT-SETTING FUNCTION OF A SONG IN VASILY SHUKSHIN’S PROSE
The paper outlines some functional aspects of a song in Russian writer Vasily Shukshin’s prose. In its rhetoric function, a song plays a decorative role in writings, makes a literature text emotionally more powerful, fill it with peculiar harmonic or dramatic sound. In its semiotic function, a song text can be considered as short, reduced plot of a whole prose composition, its cultural echo pictured in people’s conscience, it also stresses out a typical nature and relevance of a familiar narrative at the same time. In its structural function, a song being a precedent-setting text builds up a peculiar chronotopos: metaphysic space, other artistic dimension, for which music is an aesthetic code.