“I WISH I COULD FLY TO THE SKY AND BRING CHILDREN SOME BREAD”: MYTHOPOETICS OF YULIA NOVOSELOVA

Abstract

Works of contemporary Ural poet Yulia Novoselova (1973) are considered in regards to the way she constructs the poetic world of rhymes and in the light of "female poetry". The collection of poems “The spell of realism” (2018) has provided a ground for further study. The study has revealed that specific nature of Yulia Novoselova's individuality is determined primarily by her creative interpretation of such archetypal images as water and wood. Traditional complex of archetype meanings is actualized in Yulia Novoselova's works: here water is interpreted as life and death, renewal, purification, rebirth; tree acts as connection of earth and sky, living and dead, light and darkness. However, the images of wood and water in Yulia’s lyrics are often associated with "female" focus in the lyrical subject. It is the water the heroine associates her identity with. The article outlines the dialogue of the poet with Russian folklore: she addresses to folklore intonation-rhythmic, lexical expressiveness, and to the genre models of lamentation, callings (so-called zaklichki). In the course of poem study, we reveal the connection of Yulia Novoselova's lyrics with myths and folklore as well as with the works of Russian poets starting from Alexander S. Pushkin to Vera Pavlova. As a result, it is concluded that the 1990-2010-ies lyrics of Yulia Novoselova fits into the “female poetry” of the “second wave” (I.V. Kukulin), which is characterized by a combination of opposite complexes: weakness, vulnerability and strength, energy. However, the poet's craving for archaic nature (myth, folklore, dialectal words, obsolete words) and the tendency to loosen the syllabic-tonic system of versification make Yulia Novoselova unique among female poets of 1990-2000-ies.