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The rhythmic originality of the Osip Mandelstam cycle “Armenia”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-10-23
Abstract
Osip Mandelstam’s cycle “Armenia” (1930), as a careful study of his metric repertoire and rhythmic composition shows, occupies a completely special place in the poet’s work. In it, a mature master demonstrates the possession of all types of contemporary poetry, including the most radical ones, thereby refuting the general opinion about the traditional character of his versification. An important place in the artistic palette of the author of “Armenia” is occupied by the poems from the middle of the cycle, written by complex types of versification: the so-called verses with variable anacrusis, heteromorphic and free verse. The article discusses in detail the stages of Mandelstam’s mastering the Russian free verse.
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Yu. B. OrlitskiiRussian Federation
Yurii B. Orlitskii, Dr. of Sci. (Philology), bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, Russia, 125993
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For citation: Orlitskii Y.B. The rhythmic originality of the Osip Mandelstam cycle “Armenia”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(6):10-23. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-10-23
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