Несовершенство как прием: Стратегии и функции деградации субъекта

Abstract

This paper examines contemporary poetic texts in which the lyric subject (“speaker”) is demonstrably presented in a degraded manner. The lack of indicators of ironic distance makes it easy for the reader to project this lower status from the subject onto the author, which appears to compromise the artist on an evaluative scale and his/her entitlement to produce “cultural texts”. This paper offers a survey of the most common methods by which the degradation of the subject is performed: violation of poetic norms; simulation of language and thought pathology; as well as metapoetic commentary. Finally, the paper discusses the question of function, and argues that through such a paradoxical strategy, the poet provokes the reader into moving beyond the textual frames, with the result that the author himself or herself is drawn into the space of the artistic work.