The topoi city/village in the poetic system of A. Elfimova: some aspects of realization of the artistic space in the modern Komi lyrics
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Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: оne of significant characteristics of poetic creativity of Angelica Elfimova, modern Komi poetess, is dynamism. The author often expresses flexibility of sensual intonations through change of loci, change of a place of sojourn by the lyrical heroine. In the article we consider mostly the images of a city and a village. Often reproduced by A. Elfimova in texts, they reveal not only feelings of the lyrical heroine, but also allow disclosing some lines of her character. The research of spatial material in poems of the poet isn't deprived of relevance. It allow revealing not only many sides of creativity of the author, creative evolution of the author, modification of her literary style, but also to reveal some tendencies of development of modern Komi literature, in particular, the Komi poetry.
Objective: the research of spatial characteristics of poems of A. Elfimova which allows disclosing the specifics of her artistic world.
Research materials: the collections of poems of A. Elfimova.
Results and novelty of the research: the analysis of spatial characteristics of A. Elfimova's poetry reveals the frequent appeal of the author to the images of a city and a village. Her poems open various relations to these spaces. A village in works of the author acts as the place of calm and appeasement, a city acts as the place where the heart of the lyrical heroine of A. Efimova is overwhelmed by worry and growing pessimism. In general, texts of the poetess modify the opposition «us/them», which has the mythological roots, and develop it in correlation of these topoi with certain people: the village – with mother, the city – with beloved man who rejected the love of the lyrical heroine. Realization of the topoi in the artistic system of A. Elfimova reveals the marginal character of her lyrical heroine being in constant movements between the city and the village, between the feelings of increasing worry and calm. In later poems of the author it is possible to observe the movements already between a dream and a reality that also allows speaking about marginality of the lyrical heroine being on the border of real and irreal worlds. A marginal hero is a sustainable feature of literature of border time, which arises during the crisis state of the transitional world. A. Elfimova's poetry, generated by an era of a boundary of the XX–XXI centuries, opens the world perception of contemporaries, their worries and dismey.
Key words: Komi poetry, Angelica Elfimova, artistic space, image of a city, image of a village, lyrical heroine, marginal.
Acknowledgments: the publication is prepared within the framework of the Comprehensive Program of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 18-6-6-25 «Spiritual Culture and Traditional Representations of the Peoples of the European North of Russia (according to Language, Folklore and Literature)».
For citation: Gorinova N. V. The topoi city/village in the poetic system of A. Elfimova: some aspects of realization of the artistic space in the modern Komi lyrics // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 426–437.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: оne of significant characteristics of poetic creativity of Angelica Elfimova, modern Komi poetess, is dynamism. The author often expresses flexibility of sensual intonations through change of loci, change of a place of sojourn by the lyrical heroine. In the article we consider mostly the images of a city and a village. Often reproduced by A. Elfimova in texts, they reveal not only feelings of the lyrical heroine, but also allow disclosing some lines of her character. The research of spatial material in poems of the poet isn't deprived of relevance. It allow revealing not only many sides of creativity of the author, creative evolution of the author, modification of her literary style, but also to reveal some tendencies of development of modern Komi literature, in particular, the Komi poetry.
Objective: the research of spatial characteristics of poems of A. Elfimova which allows disclosing the specifics of her artistic world.
Research materials: the collections of poems of A. Elfimova.
Results and novelty of the research: the analysis of spatial characteristics of A. Elfimova's poetry reveals the frequent appeal of the author to the images of a city and a village. Her poems open various relations to these spaces. A village in works of the author acts as the place of calm and appeasement, a city acts as the place where the heart of the lyrical heroine of A. Efimova is overwhelmed by worry and growing pessimism. In general, texts of the poetess modify the opposition «us/them», which has the mythological roots, and develop it in correlation of these topoi with certain people: the village – with mother, the city – with beloved man who rejected the love of the lyrical heroine. Realization of the topoi in the artistic system of A. Elfimova reveals the marginal character of her lyrical heroine being in constant movements between the city and the village, between the feelings of increasing worry and calm. In later poems of the author it is possible to observe the movements already between a dream and a reality that also allows speaking about marginality of the lyrical heroine being on the border of real and irreal worlds. A marginal hero is a sustainable feature of literature of border time, which arises during the crisis state of the transitional world. A. Elfimova's poetry, generated by an era of a boundary of the XX–XXI centuries, opens the world perception of contemporaries, their worries and dismey.
Key words: Komi poetry, Angelica Elfimova, artistic space, image of a city, image of a village, lyrical heroine, marginal.
Acknowledgments: the publication is prepared within the framework of the Comprehensive Program of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 18-6-6-25 «Spiritual Culture and Traditional Representations of the Peoples of the European North of Russia (according to Language, Folklore and Literature)».
For citation: Gorinova N. V. The topoi city/village in the poetic system of A. Elfimova: some aspects of realization of the artistic space in the modern Komi lyrics // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 426–437.
