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CHAPTER 2. STYLISTIC FUNCTIONS OF ALLUSION IN THE POETIC TEXT IN LEWIS CAROLL’S ECCENTRIC TALE “ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND” .1 Allusion as a category of vertical context

context is a fragment of the text verbal background of the text element chosen for the analysis, a certain group of words, grammatical forms and constructions where the certain word of any other unit equal to it is used. Speaking about this notion we must differentiate horizontal and vertical context.context is the closer background of the word in sentence while vertical context is a large part of the text, where the meaning of the word can go under serious semantic transformations.Vinogradov states that the term vertical context can be understood as the background information, situational, subject historical and philosophical information that the text contains. “The usual categories of vertical context are allusions, symbols, idioms etc. Vertical context may contain the hidden information which is independent from the author’s intentions. But on the other hand, vertical context may be totally controlled by the sender of the message who creates the text in such a way that it contains a hint to some literary, lingual, social fact. Allusions are the major distinctive device of realization of vertical context.” [21, pp.41-42]Hubbenet characterizes vertical context as [22, pp.7-8] “the historical and philological context of a poetic text and its parts”. And literal allusion is its major element [24, p.25].us proceed to the examples from Lewis Caroll’s tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to understand the role of allusion in vertical context and analyze the interrelation between the given poetic text and source texts and information (events, characters) executed through the allusive process.

2.2 Varieties of allusion in the eccentric tale “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” After giving the classification of allusion we should analyze those its types which we can find in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.us start with character allusions which are quite frequently used in the text.allusions from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are studied profoundly by American writer and scientist Martin Gardner. In his work The Annotated Alice he provides background information for all the characters. explans that the members of the boating party that first heard Carroll's tale are shown up in Chapter 3 ("A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale"). Alice Liddell herself is depicted as Alice, while Carroll is caricatured as the Dodo (because Dodgson stuttered when he spoke, he sometimes pronounced his last name as Dodo-Dodgson). The Duck refers to Canon Duckworth, the Lory to Lorina Liddell, and the Eaglet to Edith Liddell (Alice Liddell's sisters) [8, p.27] . There is also another allusion to Liddell sisters. The Dormouse tells a story about three little sisters named Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie. These are the Liddell sisters: Elsie is L.C. (Lorina Charlotte), Tillie is Edith (her family nickname is Matilda), and Lacie is an anagram of Alice [28, p.75] .about other characters Bill the Lizard may be a play on the name of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli [26, pp.69-70] . This idea of Will Brooker was also confirmed in the above mentioned work of Martin Gardner . He pays reader’s attention to Tenniel's illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass where the character referred to as the "Man in White Paper" (whom Alice meets as a fellow passenger riding on the train with her), is depicted as a caricature of Disraeli, wearing a paper hat [28, p.172] . The illustrations of the Lion and the Unicorn also bear a striking resemblance to Tenniel's Punch illustrations of Gladstone and Disraeli [28, p.226] .to the work of Martin Gardner the Hatter is most likely a reference to Theophilus Carter , a furniture dealer known in Oxford for his unorthodox inventions. Tenniel apparently drew the

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