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Title of the article: |
“ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE IN THE SIEGE” IN POEMS BY GLEB SEMYONOV |
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Author(s): |
Elena A. Balashova |
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Information about the author/authors |
Elena A. Balashova — DSc in Philology, Professor, Professor of the Literature Chair, K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University, Voskresenskiy lane, 4, 248000 Кaluga, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2603-4239. E-mail: balashova_ea@mail.ru |
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Section |
Philological sciences |
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Year |
2021 |
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Volume |
Vol. 59 |
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Pages |
pp. 227–236 |
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Received |
August 26, 2019 |
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Date of publication |
March 28, 2021 |
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DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-59-227-236 |
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Index UDK |
821.161.1.0 |
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Index BBK |
83.3(2Рос=Рус)6 |
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Abstract |
The purpose of the paper is to show how Gleb Semyonov managed to update the issues of war poetry: he moves away from the chronicle, yet at the same time his texts allow us to recreate the life of Leningrad residents day by day. The author analyzes the body of war poems by Gleb Semyonov written from 1941 to 1960. The main content of the study constitutes the analysis of the cycle “Memories of the Siege”. The poet dwells on milestones of the life of the city and the life of an unfortunate person, whose moods change quickly from fear and numbness (“Silence”) to emerging animal feelings of a hunger bitten (“Feat”, “Immortality”). The end of his story of the besieged captivity the poet will see not when it is reported on the radio or in the bulletins, but when it will be possible to return to the peaceful, revived life after the siege of Leningrad. Based on the results of the study, the author makes conclusions on the poetical features of this cycle, such as the rejection of timing, intertextuality, plurality of “details” and symbolism. Conducted on the basis of historical-genetic and comparative-historical approaches, the research draws upon conceptions, methods and results of modern poetry, primarily M. Gasparov and his school. |
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Keywords |
the twentieth-century poetry, poetry of the war years, siege, Leningrad, Gleb Semyonov. |
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References |
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