Forms of authorial presence in w. thackeray's “vanity fair”

Abstract

The article deals with the models of author's presence and forms of its manifestation in W. Thackeray's novel “Vanity Fair” (change of narrators, author's masks, appeals to the reader, emotional exclamations addressed to the reader, phenomenological aspects, the play of levels and forms of artistic conventionality, the multifaceted author), their difference from the author's image in the prose of contemporary writers. The author determines the role of author's digression intended to show “moral defects of the society” and indicates the relevance of studying the forms of author's presence in W. Thackeray's novel “Vanity Fair” for research.