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Aleksei S. Bokarev
Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University
Alena V. Korableva
Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University
POETICS OF EKPHRASIS OF PAINTINGS IN LYRIC POETRY BY SERGEY GANDLEVSKIY
Bokarev A.S., Korableva A.V. Poetics of ekphrasis of paintings in lyric poetry by Sergey Gandlevskiy. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2022, vol. 28, № 4, pp. 54–62 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2022-28-4-54-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2022-28-4-54-62
УДК: 821.161.1.09”20”
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Publish date: 2022-12-08
Annotation: The article considers the functioning of ekphrasis, which is understood as a kind of self-reflexive text based on interpreting non-verbal works of art, in poetry by Sergey Gandlevskiy. Painting plays a significant part among the media the author refers to: in his poems, frequent are both mentions of artists (Vincent Willem van Gogh, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Karl Bryullov, Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov) and references to well-known paintings (Barge Haulers on the Volga, Stag Hunt, The Hunters in the Snow, Saint Agnes, Bedroom in Arles, etc.). The ekphrasis is built as an inter-media palimpsest resulting from “layering” of verbal and visual quotations: reality is represented as a “picture” that existed before the creative act, “on top” of which a poem is being written. It is natural that an increased focus on the “alien’s” (word, images, scenes) actualises the meta-poetic function of ekphrasis – it not just reveals the fact that empirical reality is secondary to art, but also “highlights” the ability of the latter to resist the course of time. As a tool for the hero’s self-identification, ekphrasis brings to the fore the figure of an “alien”, serving as a “reference point”, relying on (or building on) which the protagonist evaluates himself and his experience. Thus, the ekphrasis in Sergey Gandlevskiy’s lyrics represents the meanings related to the problems of reality and fiction, time and eternity, life and death, thereby contributing to the author’s revision of human cognitive abilities.
Keywords: Sergey Gandlevskiy, intermediality, ekphrasis, intertextuality, metapoetics, subject structure, dialogical relations in lyric poetry.
Funding and acknowledgments: The study was carried out at the expense of a grant in the form of a subsidy from the federal budget to educational organisations of higher education for the implementation of activities aimed at supporting student scientific communities within the framework of the state programme of the Russian Federation “Scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation”.
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Author's info: Aleksei S. Bokarev, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University, Yaroslavl, Russia, asbokarev@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8771-6065
Co-author's info: Alena V. Korableva, 2nd year master’s student, Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University, Yaroslavl, Russia, korableva.alena.98@bk.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-2240