Book concept in Dystopia: to the Question of Genre Determination

Abstract

Artistic conceptology is one of the promising directions in modern stylistics of artistic speech. It is concerned with the specifics of concepts verbalization in literary texts as components of the author's linguistic world picture. This article raises the issue of generic specifics of the book concept determined by the type of the literary text. The authors reveal the peculiar features of the concept under study in the framework of dystopia that can be considered as typical for the genre. The findings of the paper are based on the study of the most representative, suggestive texts of classical Russian and English dystopias, such as 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, We by Y. Zamyatin, The Slynx by T. Tolstaya. The main features of this concept are identified; a conclusion is made about the discursive and genre conditionality of their implementation.