Literary Expression Elements in P.G. Wodehouse's Literature (based on the novel "The Code of Woosters")

The subject of the study is the novel by P. G. Wodehouse "The Code of Woosters" ("The Woosters' Family Honor"). The object of the study is the forms and methods of manifestation of play-elements literature used to create a comic effect. The author examines the nonverbal means in detail that, alongside with the verbal ones, are able to create and increase the comic in the work. The article pays attention to such aspects of the topic as the manifestation of the game principle through the theatre features demonstrated in the behavior of the protagonist, allusions to the characters of other works as well as references to some historical figures a combination of poetological, verbal features, and other means of intertextuality and intermediality.The main conclusion of the conducted research is the use by P. G. Wodehouse in the novel “The Code of Woosters” of a combination of the English humorous tradition elements: the place of action, the main characters with a literary game to create a comic effect. Such an unusual technique distinguishes the writer in the comedy genre. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is studying of specific techniques and forms of literary play-elements used by the writer. The question of intertextuality and intermediality as game elements that enhance the comicality of characters and their images, situations is raised, and the game behavior of the protagonist is also considered as a form of expression of intertextuality.

literary play-element, comic discourse, intertext, intertextuality, intermediality, game poetics, allusions, references, english humorous tradition, characterology