Russian literature
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Russian Literature
Title:
Exploring Mythopoetics and Intertextuality in Post-Revolutionary Soviet LiteratureSummary:
This article delves into the intricate relationship between myth and literature in post-revolutionary Soviet literature, a topic of interest for literary theorists since the 1950s.Keywords:
Russian literature, poetry, myth, poetic word, textArticle Body:
The interpretation of mythopoetic texts emerged within Russian philology in the 1970s, at the crossroads of various humanities paradigms. Embracing poststructuralist principles, mythopoetic criticism integrates contemporary methodologies from linguistics, semiotics, and cultural studies. This innovative approach allows for an exploration of deep semantics often overlooked by traditional literary history. While some aspects of this method may seem unconventional, its novel interpretative strategies have proven fruitful, prompting scholars to move beyond outdated analytical frameworks.Notable figures in mythopoetics include scholars from both Western (such as Erzy Faryno, Wolf Schmid, Aage Hansen-Love, Igor Smirnov, and Mikhail Weiskopf) and Russian domains (including Vladimir Toporov and the younger scholars like the Goncharov family and Tupa). This article aims to examine mythopoetic questions from historical, typological, and practical perspectives, forming the focus of the first section.
Despite the practical analyses conducted within this trend, there remains a lack of a unified theoretical framework. Thus, a historical exploration of the method's development is necessary, given its eclectic origins. The first part of this work surveys the methodology's evolution over time.
The second part attempts a practical application of these theoretical constructs, focusing on Soviet literature from the 1920s and early 1930s. This era's unique consciousness actively revived archaic models within a modern context, making it a particularly rich area of study. The poetry from this period is often overlooked compared to the socialist realism of the 1930s and 1940s. Here, the focus is on the fundamental mythopoetic elements, including key motifs and universal plot structures.
The literary works selected for interpretation include proletarian poetry from the 1920s and fragments from the 1930s, Alexander Tvardovsky's long poem "The Land of Muravia," short stories by Andrei Platonov, and Ilya Selvinsky's novel-in-verse "PUSHTORG." These texts are organized typologically to encompass all basic spheres where mythopoetic elements operate. The study aims to highlight the fundamental mythopoetic aspects of Soviet literature from this period and identify semantic universals akin to archaic models.
Additionally, the article highlights derivatives of the most prevalent narratives in traditional societies, such as the ritual of transitioning from one world to another. This narrative manifests in three forms: vegetative, animalistic, and industrial, symbolizing the epoch's central event?"the Revolution. Early Soviet poets portrayed the Revolution as a swift obliteration of the old world and an immediate creation of the new, making mythological consciousness models, particularly cosmogonical plots, relevant in their writing processes.
Source: [Proletcult](http://proletcult.narod.ru/)
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