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Playing with the Canon as an Iconic Device in Skaldic Poetry
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-1-73-85
Abstract
The main aim of the present paper is to identify and analyse the examples of iconicity in skaldic poetry. In our paper, we understand iconicity to mean a skald's desire to achieve a non-verbal effect by verbal means. The poetic devices that will be considered here do not, by definition, possess universality, do not form any integral group based on their internal structure. It cannot be a trivial task to characterise such phenomena, for they are found on the boundary between what can be formalized and what is beyond it. Across the spectrum of those singular, sometimes unique and often almost occasional, means of shaping the poetic text we shall be looking mostly into those participating in the creation of immediate visual or acoustic images.
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D. A. GolovanenkoRussian Federation
Denis A. Golovanenko.
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F. B. Uspenskii
Russian Federation
Fedor B. Uspenskii - Dr. of Sci. (Philology), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research University “Higher School of Economics”.
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For citation: Golovanenko D.A., Uspenskii F.B. Playing with the Canon as an Iconic Device in Skaldic Poetry. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(1):73-85. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-1-73-85
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