Communication-Oriented Approach to Media and Genre Blending in a Sample of Early Modern English Poetry

The article uses an interdisciplinary approach to selected early modern poems of JohnDonne and aims delineate the research area which still awaits systematic exploration.The textual analysis his elegy: Comparison, operating within communicationorientedtheory genre blending, leads detection its multigeneric dialogicpatterns. It reveals intricate manner in features functions various literaryand non-literary forms are intertwined harmonized one poem. is also arguedthat Donne’s elegy derives imagery from experimental trend toward caricatures(grotesquery) followed by 15th/16th-century portraitists painters. general conclusion that Donne utilizes various, then available, communication channelsto ensure intermediality message concept presupposes certain cognitiveand creative processes on addressee’s side.