Deep contamination – an ideal vehicle for the artistic transformation of character’s inner speech

Abstract

  In this article special emphasis is placed on the process of deep contamination as a means of artistic transformation of character’s inner speech in a literary text. Contamination occurs when the narrator’s speech merges with that of a character. Contamination of author-narrator-character perspectives embodies the contamination of their individual spaces and various types of information: 1) factual; 2) subjective-assertive; 3) super semantic information. Consequently, deep contamination determines an extremely true value of a literary text.