К истории русской поэтической наррации: прозаической автокомментарий в поэмах П. Буслаева «Умозрительство душевное» и М. Амелина «Веселая наука»

Abstract

The paper aims to compare the long poems by Petr Buslaev (“The Speculations of the Soul”, 1734) and Maksim Amelin (“The Joyous Science”, 1999). The author proves the genetic relatedness between two poems and specifically focuses on the phenomenon of the prosaic stanza-by-stanza auto-commentary on the margins of the poetical text, which is extremely rare and unequivocally reveals the association between Amelin’s and Buslaev’s works. The author also dwells on the narrative subject (i. e. the subject of speech and consciousness) — both in the main poetical text and the prosaic auto-commentary of the poems — revealing the similarities and differences between the two literary works belonging to different epochs of poetics: traditionalist (or eidetic) and the non-classical phase of the poetics of the artistic modality. The analysis moves on with less detail onto all structural levels of both poems; the author establishes that Amelin, on the one hand, reproduces poetical principles of the 18th century in general and those of the poetical narration of the period in particular, and, on the other hand, he transforms them in accordance with the spirit of new poetics. While borrowing the most prominent feature of the late-Baroque poem by Buslaev — the auto-commentary on the margins of the poetical text, Amelin copies its outer appearance at the same time reorienting it and turning the device of the “learned poetry” that seek to explain to the reader all the obscure elements of the text and propose the only right interpretation of the poetical text into the literary game creating the meaningful clash of styles, epochs, and worldviews.