The article considers two poems by Yury Levitansky, “So what if i was there...” and “Memory” (both of them are included into the book of poems, “Letters to Katerina, or A walk with Faust», 1981), from the perspective of the representation in them of the memory visual images. In both texts, memory is not a mere motif, but a structure-forming category in the lyrical poem’s imagery and plot structure. It’s so because the abstract category of memory is conveyed through sensual, primarily visual images, such as space and its various patterns (such as vertical/horizontal, widening/shrinking), colour, light, etc. Visual imagery combines with the direct and transgressive vision of the lyrical subject. Through the visual images of memory, the lyrical subject experiences and reinterprets traumatic experiences are experienced and reinterpreted. In turn, the representation of visual images of memory not only organizes the lyrical event and the lyrical plot, but also makes it possible to appeal to the reader’s imagination and his/her historical memory
The article offers one possible option for distinguishing between mass and high literature namely by relying on the specific features of the genre poetics. The definition of the genre by Mikhail Bakhtin is used as a methodological basis. Having regard to the historical poetics and evolution of the genre category that has been described in the works of Sergey Averintsev, Samson Broitman and others, the article substantiates the following hypothesis: in European literature, starting from the second half of the 18th century, we can see two main genre-forming principles that are existing in parallel: the genre canon and the interior measure of the genre. The interior measure of a genre that is the direction (vector) of its possible development, and it can be used as a characteristic feature of the high literature. The interior measure determines the artistic possibilities of a particular genre. The genre canon becomes a genreforming principle for mass literature. It forms, consolidates and replicates stable (repeating) genre features. As an example, the article considers genres of the novel in verse, the Gothic novel and the historical novel. On their basis, various possible ways of correlating the genre canon and the interior measure of the genre are shown
In the article the poem by N.A. Zabolotsky “Bolero” (1957) is considered from the point of view of the visual and musical imagery representation in it. The main purpose of the paper is to determine how the title In the article the poem by N.A. Zabolotsky “Bolero” (1957) is considered from the point of view of the visual and musical imagery representation in it. The main purpose of the paper is to determine how the title
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