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The universal “we” of a generation. Lyrical subject and lyrical plot
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-10-177-186
Abstract
The paper considers a type of lyrical subject that can be described as a universal “we”. It is a subject that is expressed by the first-person plural pronoun. At the same time, the “we” remains throughout the poem and denotes an unmanageable multitude united in some commonality. The article analyses texts in which such a commonality belongs to a generation: the poems “We” by P. Antokolsky (1927), “We are young. We have stockings with darns” (1980) and A. Gorodnitsky’s “We have been” (2019). The type of subject in those poems is called the personal universal “we”: the subject expressed by the plural pronoun is nevertheless the bearer of a single consciousness and the center of the artistic world, i.e. both the subject of speech and the subject of action, and the bearer of a point of view.
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V. Ya. MalkinaRussian Federation
Victoria Ya. Malkina, Cand. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125993
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For citation: Malkina V.Y. The universal “we” of a generation. Lyrical subject and lyrical plot. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2020;(10(2)):177-186. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-10-177-186
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