Образ Бенвенуто Челлини в сверхтекстовом единстве И. А. Бродского

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to determine what semantic and symbolic meaning Benvenuto Cellini’s image and the semantic-symbolic complex associated with it (Perseus, Medusa Gorgon, Florence, etc.) carry as a part of the study of the semantic centre of supertextual unity in I. A. Brodsky’s creative work. The material of the research is the poem “Burning” as it is a potential representative of the selected non-traditional cyclic formation. The proposed work is considered in the unity of its content and poetological characteristics, as well as special functions. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the clarification of a number of Brodsky’s texts that implicitly develop Cellini’s image, as well as in the analysis of the figurative-motive complex associated with it in “Burning”. The main results of the presented work are the identification of the subtextual presence of Cellini’s image in the selected poem; the definition of its role in the subjective structure and lyrical plot; the assumption about the connection between the Italian and St. Petersburg texts in “Burning”.