Motivation essay: peculiar features of the genre and translation (based on Ryan Holiday’s essay "Ego is the enemy")

Pokrovskaia Natalia Vladimirovna

In this paper, the object of research is a motivation essay analyzed from the standpoint of genre and stylistic features and translation. The article presents the characteristics of the essay, typical features of the English-language motivational discourse, definition of the motivational essay and the main ways of its verbalization and implementation of the leading function of pervasiveness on the example of the work of the modern American writer Ryan Holiday. The main factors important for translators are formulated on the basis of the identified characteristic features of the English-language motivation essay.

Keywords:Ryan Holiday, essay genre, motivational English-language discourse, motivation essay, stylistic features, translation difficulties.