Intermediality in the lyrics of G. Ivanov. On the question of tradition

Abstract

The article considers G. Ivanov’s lyrics in the light of references to other types of art: painting and music. It is presented as modernist, open to the combination of the verbal component with the pictorial/musical one. The concept of intermediality (based on O. Hansen-Leve) in relation to Ivanov’s work is offered for consideration. The author problematizes Ivanov’s place in the literary tradition and comprehends: the existing research views on the poet’s work. The historical-cultural and biographical context in which Ivanov’s lyrics exist is given: the poet’s interest in the fine arts is analysed; the facts of Ivanov’s reference to music in egodocuments and artistic texts are considered. The painting and musical elements in poetic texts are seen in the present study from the point of view of their typological correspondence to modernist trends: acmeism and symbolism. A distinction is made between the texts corpus of Ivanov’s early and late lyrics in terms of the use of painting / musical elements in them. As a result, a new view of Ivanov’s lyrics is proposed, which takes into account, on the one hand, the frequency of painting and musical motifs, and, on the other hand, their presence within individual poetic texts.