The Dialogical Quality of the Russian Poetry of the Silver Age: A Case Study of Poems about Don Juan

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.07

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Don Juan, Silver Age, dialogic quality of literature, Balmont, Bryusov, Gumilyov

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The article brings a discussion of three poems of Russian modernist poets that undertake the theme of Don Juan – written by Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov and Nikolai Gumilyov. The purpose is to elucidate the characteristics of the artistic dialogue in the discourse of modernist poetry. Two types of dialogue are discussed: macro- and microdialogue. The former is realised through intertextual forms, the latter – by means of intersubjective forms. When poets refer to the image of Don Juan, one variety of dialogue may well transform into the other. The author of the paper indicates emphatically that the poems under discussion constitute a chain of transformations of the image of Don Juan: the image as proposed by Balmont is then developed by Bryusov and revaluated by Gumilyov. The semantic core of all the three texts is the image of Don Juan as a wanderer who yields to temptations of transient delights.

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Aleksandra Szymańska, Uniwersytet Łódzki Wydział Filologiczny Instytut Rusycystyki Zakład Literatury i Kultury Rosyjskiej 90-226 Łódź ul. Pomorska 171/173

Шиманьска Александра (Szymańska Aleksandra) – кандидат филоло- гических наук, адъюнкт кафедры русской литературы и культуры Инсти- тута русистики Лодзинского университета. Научные интересы: история русской литературы, интертекстуальность, семиотика культуры, мифы Но- вого времени, испанские мотивы в русской литературе. Автор монографии Postać Don Juana w utworach pisarzy rosyjskich XIX wieku, Łódź: Wydawnictwo UŁ 2009. Из недавних публикаций: Дон Жуан в Сети. К вопросу о качестве литературного процесса в Интернете, «Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica» 2018, № 11, c. 183–191; Дон Кихот русский: вечные обра- зы как опорные элементы культурной идентичности, [в:] Самосознание и идентичность. Русская литература XVIII–XXI вв. / Selbstbewusstsein und Identität. Russische Literatur im 18. – 21. Jahrhundert, München: Herbert Utz Verlag 2018, с. 121–127; Эволюция сюжета о Дон Жуане в русской литерату- ре (от народного предания к мифу Нового времени), «Przegląd Rusycystyczny» 2019, № 1(165), c. 101–110; «Чужой», «свой», «общий». Миф Дон Жуана в рус- ской литературе Серебряного века, [в:] Русский язык и культура в эпоху глобализации, Pécs: Pécsi Tudományegyetem BTK Szláv Filológia Tanszék 2020, c. 93–101.

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2021-12-23

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Szymańska, A. (2021). The Dialogical Quality of the Russian Poetry of the Silver Age: A Case Study of Poems about Don Juan. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (14), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.14.07

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