While dreaming. Imaginary and fantastical space (“The Cave of Sleep” by N. Gumilev, “Dream” by N. Zabolotsky and “Dream” by A. Grin)


https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-3-180-188

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Abstract

The article analyses the form of dreaming in lyric poetry. It is considered, firstly, as a representation of the visual in literature. Secondly, the question of how dreaming in a lyrical poem can relate to the categories of the fantastical world-image and the imaginary world of the hero is investigated. The material is three poems in which dream is not only mentioned or serves as a motif, but is actually a reality (world, space) of dream existing within the literary reality of the poem. Thus the category of border as both a connecting and disconnecting entity is also significant. The conclusion is made about how to differentiate between dream as a phenomenon of the fantasy world-image and dream as a type of the hero’s imaginary world.


About the Author

V. Ya. Malkina
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

Viktoria Ya. Malkina, Cand. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor

bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125047

  


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For citation: Malkina V.Y. While dreaming. Imaginary and fantastical space (“The Cave of Sleep” by N. Gumilev, “Dream” by N. Zabolotsky and “Dream” by A. Grin). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(3(2)):180-188. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-3-180-188

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