MULTIMODALITY OF BRITISH MORERNIST FICTION (ON THE MATERIAL OF S. BECKETT’S “WATT”)

Abstract

This article focuses upon the analysis of the main trends in linguopoetic research of literary text multimodality, addressed by Ukrainian and foreign scholars. It defines further prospects of such research for contemporary stylistic studies. The article examines the significance of multimodal aspect in research of British modernist fiction with a special emphasis on the multimodal elements in S. Beckett’s “Watt”.