Ways of artistic argumentation in the artistic creativity of Tatiana Tolstaya

The article deals with the peculiarities of argumentation in the artistic texts of Tatiana Tolstaya’s creative work including her symbolic argumentation. The writer uses different ways of argumentation in artistic social and political essays where four techniques of argumentation such as description, expressiveness, evaluation and orectic means dominate in the text. In all these cases the combination of the above mentioned ways of argumentation result in expressing conviction.

argumentation in an artistic text, a “transformer” method, an expressive, assessing argumentation, an orective