Strategies of constructing a lyrical subject in the poetry of Anna Gorenko
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-2-143-153
Abstract
The article considers the lyrical subject in the poetry of Anna Gorenko. The author’s poetics presents a complex construction of the subjective structure, not suitable for one particular typology. Following the analysis of a number of texts from the poetic collection «Feast of uneaten bread» by A. Gorenko we will define strategies of the subject’s assembly. Splitting into several speaking instances (including the figure of the Other, the pronominal form «we» and role-playing subjects), discursive “flickering” within the narrator’s speech, bodily dissociation are considered as key practices of modeling the subject. The article will demonstrates how the listed strategies relate to each other and influence the problematics of A. Gorenko’s poetry. Through the subject structure in the texts, the decentralization of identity is represented, which is due to the traumatic nature of experience and the problematic individual expression in discursive conditions.
About the Author
Marina G. Berezina
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina G. Berezina, master student
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Berezina M.G. Strategies of constructing a lyrical subject in the poetry of Anna Gorenko. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(2):143-153. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-2-143-153
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