“Self-Portrait” and the Issues of the Visual in the Russian Poetry of the 20th Century

Authors

  • Viktoriia Malkina Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet, Institut filologii i istorii, Kafedra teoreticheskoi i istoricheskoi poetiki, 125993, GSP-3, Moskva, Miusskaia ploshchad, d. 6 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1323-7683

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.14

Keywords:

the visual in poetry, self-portrait, lyrical subject, lyrical plot

Abstract

The paper analyses visual poetics in a number of poems entitled “Self-portrait”. The author construes the visual in literature as a category of poetics which assumes the visibility of the inner world of the poem for the lyrical subject and for the reader. The visual in the lyric poetry can be expressed in various ways, including allusions to the genres of visual arts, for example, to self-portraiture. The topic undertaken is relevant, given the currently growing interest in intermediality in literature in general and in poetry in particular. What is new about the present research is that poetic self-portraits are considered here from the point of view of visual poetics. The main purpose of the paper is to analyse the ways in which the lyrical subject visually represents his or her own image. The following aspects are touched upon: the interaction of poetry and painting, the common and the differentiating features of a pictorial and a lyrical self-portrait; the use of visual details; the subjective structure of poems and the lyrical plot. There is also an attempt to build a typology of poetic self-portraits, depending on how the lyrical subject sees himself/herself as another. The material of the study includes poems by Aleksandr Kushner, Ilya Selvinsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Osip Mandelshtam, Konstantin Bolshakov, Valentin Katarsin, Nikolai Rylenkov, and others.

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Author Biography

Viktoriia Malkina, Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet, Institut filologii i istorii, Kafedra teoreticheskoi i istoricheskoi poetiki, 125993, GSP-3, Moskva, Miusskaia ploshchad, d. 6

Малкина Виктория Яковлевна – кандидат филологических наук, до- цент, заведующая кафедрой теоретической и исторической поэтики Инсти- тута филологии и истории Российского государственного гуманитарного университета. Научные интересы: поэтика лирики, визуальное в литературе, фантастическое в лирике, лирический сюжет, историческая поэтика, поэти- ка исторического и готического романа, историческая память в литературе. Из недавних публикаций: Фантастическое в лирическом стихотворении: постановка проблемы, [в:] В поисках границ фантастического: на пути к ме- тодологии, Вроцлав: Фонд «Русско-польский институт» 2017, с. 95–115; Фо- тоэкфрасис в лирическом стихотворении: постановка проблемы, [в:] Теория и история экфрасиса: итоги и перспективы изучения, Siedlce: Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Kiterackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego 2018, с. 413–431; Субъектный неосинкретизм в российской лирике ХХ века: проблемы типо- логии и анализа, «Известия Российской академии наук. Серия литературы и языка» 2019, вып. 3, с. 33–38; Die visuellen Künste als Spiegel: Das lyrische Subjekt in den Gedichten über Malerei und Fotografie von Il’ja Sel’vinskij und Aleksandr Kušner, [в:] Ich-Splitter: (Cross-)Mediale Selbstentwürfe in den Slawischen Kulturen, Wien: Peter Lang 2019, с. 267–294; Postmemory in Lyrical and Visual Narratives by Aleksandr Gorodnitskiĭ. His Poetry and Film «V poiskakh idisha», [в:] Trauma – Generations – Narration. Transgenerational Narratives in Contemporary Literature on the Eastern, Eastern Central and South Eastern European Region, Berlin: Frank & Timme 2020, с. 371–387.

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Published

2021-12-23

How to Cite

Malkina, V. (2021). “Self-Portrait” and the Issues of the Visual in the Russian Poetry of the 20th Century. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (14), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.14

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