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The latest Smolensk poetry: An attempt at cross-sectional analysis
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-5-62-72
Abstract
The article considers the legacy of the Smolensk poetic school (1930s) and its influence on the contemporary regional poetic landscape and individual auctorial strategies. The term was coined in the 1960s by the critic A. Makedonov, who numbered M. Isakovsky, A. Tvardovsky, N. Rylenkov, and others among members of the Smolensk poetic school on the basis of their adherence to the unifying principles of ‘new preciseness,' ‘democratization of the ideal,' the pathos of generalization and the ‘pathos of a precise address,' a new type of lyricism, and the influence of the folklore and Nekrasov's poetry. It is interesting to consider today's effects of the school's existence: despite the fact that modern Smolensk-based poets are living almost a century after the school's emergence, a number of its principles remain attractive or, on the contrary, provoke their rejection, for example, by members of the literary studio ‘Persona'. According to the critic, this studio not only keeps the tradition going and helps young poets with self-identification, but also registers the main development vectors of young poets in Smolensk.
About the Author
A. V. Trifonova
Smolensk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anastasia V. Trifonova - Candidate of Philology.
4 Przhevalsky St., Smolensk, 214000
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Trifonova A.V. The latest Smolensk poetry: An attempt at cross-sectional analysis. Voprosy literatury. 2020;(5):62-72. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-5-62-72
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