The influence of commentary on literary text

Abstract

This article analyzes the impact of the commentary on the commented literary text. Despite the fact that society is losing interest in the traditional genre of commentary – book or academic – due to the availability of any clarifying information on the Internet on request, the need for its functioning and, as a consequence, for its improvement, remains. New commentary technologies are emerging, and commentary is attracting increasing attention as a cultural phenomenon in its own right. This is probably due to the development of the anthropocentric paradigm in philology, interest in literary and cultural reflections, and the expansion of information opportunities, which determines the relevance of the study. The study of the commentary and its creation were carried out at different times by the most famous philologists, and the author of the article relies on the works of theorists and practitioners of the commentary, their opinions on this issue, which were generalized and systematized, as well as on examples of commenting on fiction in various publications. The commentary is considered in a totality of features, its definitions are analyzed from the linguistic viewpoint, the main function is described as providing and optimizing the understanding of the text, as well as aspects of its influence on the text. The goal is to analyze the impact of commentary on the text being commented on. The author identified eight aspects of the influence of commentary on the text; these aspects were presented, nominated and described, which indicates the range of tasks solved. The main and related aspects of the influence of commentary, including a destructive one, are highlighted. The novelty and theoretical significance of the study is demonstrated by the description of the change in text perception with the development of the commentary as a general cultural phenomenon. This paper uses a methodologically important new perspective for analyzing the interaction of text and commentary to it. As a result, the study shows how the text and its perception by the addressee change , if it is commented on.