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Communicative strategy of young O. Mandelstam’s metalyrical poetry (“I haven’t heard of the tales of Ossian”)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-204-215
Abstract
This article examines the configuration of various genre strategies of lyric and its function in the artistic wholeness of metalyrical poetry. For this purpose the author analyses O. Mandelstam’s poem “I haven’t heard of the tales of Ossian” (1914) in terms of the concept “metalyric” by E. Muller-Zettelmann and the idea of Prof. V.I. Tyupa about the performative nature of lyrical poetry. In this regard, the attention is drawn to O. Mandelstam’s poem “I havn’t heard the tales of Ossian” (1914) because there the poet’s creative will is carried out in various performative strategies, each lyrical “I” actualizes itself in different ways. At the same time, a hybrid of genre-forming principles makes it possible to dynamically transform the lyrical “I” in the course of the poem. It is no less interesting that the combination of idyllic and elegiac strategies in this text leads to an increase in the alienation of the poet from world culture. In the lyrical strategy of volunte, in turn, the poet’s desire to overcome the dichotomy of the “alien” and “his own” is visible. When considering the last stanza of the poem, special attention is paid to the image of the “skald”, which highlights the crystallization of world poetic traditions. As a result of the study, the author of the article offers a definition of a performative strategy inherent to the Mandelstam’s metalyric, which is oriented at the history of poetics.
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J. LeeRussian Federation
Jonghyeon Lee, postgraduate student, bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, Russia, 125993
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For citation: Lee J. Communicative strategy of young O. Mandelstam’s metalyrical poetry (“I haven’t heard of the tales of Ossian”). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(6(2)):204-215. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-6-204-215
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