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Ars memoriae — ars oblivionis in the poetry of the ‘first wave’ Russian emigrants
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-1-79-98
Abstract
The article examines the principal models of memory that are typical of the poetry of the ‘first wave’ Russian emigration. Poems by Russian emigres are characterised primarily by the use of the biographical (individual) and collective (communicative and cultural) memory models. The dominant idea of memory as an obligation means that the hoard of memories about the past is a factor that enables emigrants to preserve their Russian identity.This ‘hypertrophied retrospectivism,’ to use Brodsky’s term, exercised its influence on all levels and planes of ‘first wave’ poetry, including its genre structure. This retrospective approach is rejected, especially in poems by younger generation poets, with its opponents refusing to remember traumatic experiences of the past, suffered either personally or on a national scale. The author, therefore, reveals and analyses two key variations of cultural memory which she believes to determine the internal structure and genre composition of the poetry by ‘first wave’ Russian emigres.
About the Author
J. Brzykcy
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Poland
Poland
Jolanta Brzykcy - PhD in Philology.
11 Gagarin St., Torun, 87-100
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Brzykcy J. Ars memoriae — ars oblivionis in the poetry of the ‘first wave’ Russian emigrants. Voprosy literatury. 2021;(1):79-98. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-1-79-98
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