Personification in the Socio-Psychological Prose of Mikhail Lermontov

Personification belongs to one of the fairly frequently used figurative devices, but it still has be explored. In particular, this refers Mikhail Lermontov’s prose. Along with that, identification and objectification author’s style is important for literary criticism translation studies. Within broad frame term, personification can interpreted as giving an inanimate object or a purely abstract thing characteristics animate being, endowed feeling life. The present paper focuses on description functional analysis in Lermontovian socio-psychological database built scrutiny contains three novels written at different periods his life: “Vadim” (1832–1834), “Princess Ligovskaya” (1836–1837) “A Hero Our Time”. Because its brevity, essay “The Caucasian” (1841) serves source additional illustrative material. Adescriptive employs semantic, contextual quantitative methods. A unit observation “key lexical item” conjunction referent, allows us identify categorize personification. describes main structural semantic features investigates principal functions texts. been shown that examples novel make kind network designed create space focused Nature Man integral element earthly world. Furthermore, current study demonstrates accomplishes five basic prose: figurative, aesthetic, ludic, intertextual, compositional. undertaken contributes systematizing numerous prose, emphasizes importance further research aimed clarify impact devices internal architectonics