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Bella Akhmadulina and the Sixtiers: Contacts, contexts, and poems
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-2-115-135
Abstract
The article offers a close look at Bella Akhmadulina’s poetic dedications to her contemporaries: A. Akhmatova, B. Pasternak, A. Bitov, V. Vysotsky, A. Kushner, and B. Okudzhava. The scholars employ two methods: a bibliographical and a philological one. The former helps to reconstruct the context for Akhmadulina’s interactions with her predecessors and her Sixtiers peers, while the latter, applied to her texts, shows the way in which the dedicatee’s personality and their ties to Moscow or St. Petersburg determine the poem’s metaphors and intonation. A detailed analysis of her dedications to friends and older poets reveals customized, dedicatee-driven communication strategies, as well as invariant features of the poetic dialogue between Akhmadulina and a whole of Russian literature.
About the Authors
A. S. Bokarev
K. D. Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology
T. G. Kuchina
K. D. Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Doctor of Philology
Russian Federation
Doctor of Philology
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For citations:
Bokarev A.S., Kuchina T.G. Bella Akhmadulina and the Sixtiers: Contacts, contexts, and poems. Voprosy literatury. 2019;(2):115-135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-2-115-135
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