The article defines the concept of a figurative field and analyzes the metaphors and similes that form the field «Theater» in the texts of modern Russian prose writers. The purpose of the article is to model the structure of this figurative field and identify new trends in the use of its elements. The material used was the works of D. Rubina, O. Slavnikova, A. Ilichevsky, G. Markosyan-Kasper, E. Kolina, M. Shishkin, Yu. Buida, V. Pelevin, A. Astvatsaturov and others, as well as contexts extracted from the Russian National Corpus. The main research methods are structural-semantic, corpus and comparative. In the process of analysis, groups of lexical units constituting the field were identified (names of genres of dramatic works, designations of theater people, names of stage objects, etc.). It is shown that comparative tropes with vehicles of the «Theater» field characterize different tenors: both the characters of the works and the world around them, and express different types of assessments. It is concluded that the composition of theatrical metaphors and similes in modern texts is being updated. For modern literature, in comparison with the previous period, a tendency towards concretization of vehicles and widespread use of species designations and different types of distributors is characteristic.
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