Stylisation

Stylisation is a writer's deliberate imitation of the characteristic features of another's style: the manner of a certain author, a literary movement, a historical age, folklore or a functional variety of speech. Unlike parody, which mocks the model, and epigonism, which unoriginally repeats it, stylisation creatively reproduces the stylistic features of the source for an artistic purpose — the recreation of the colouring of an age, a folk-poetic resonance, the atmosphere of a certain milieu. Stylisation demands a fine feeling for style and a masterful command of its means — vocabulary, syntax, imagery, rhythm. Folk stylisation is widespread, in which a literary work imitates the poetics of a folk song, duma or tale. Stylisation is closely linked to the concepts of style, intertextuality and literary tradition and is studied by stylistics and poetics.