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https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2022-28-4-54-62
Copy DOIJournal: Vestnik of Kostroma State University | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2023 |
The article considers the functioning of ekphrasis, which is understood as a kind of self-reflexive text based on interpreting non-verbal works of art, in poetry by Sergey Gandlevskiy. Painting plays a significant part among the media the author refers to: in his poems, frequent are both mentions of artists (Vincent Willem van Gogh, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Karl Bryullov, Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov) and references to well-known paintings (Barge Haulers on the Volga, Stag Hunt, The Hunters in the Snow, Saint Agnes, Bedroom in Arles, etc.). The ekphrasis is built as an inter-media palimpsest resulting from “layering” of verbal and visual quotations: reality is represented as a “picture” that existed before the creative act, “on top” of which a poem is being written. It is natural that an increased focus on the “alien’s” (word, images, scenes) actualises the meta-poetic function of ekphrasis – it not just reveals the fact that empirical reality is secondary to art, but also “highlights” the ability of the latter to resist the course of time. As a tool for the hero’s self-identification, ekphrasis brings to the fore the figure of an “alien”, serving as a “reference point”, relying on (or building on) which the protagonist evaluates himself and his experience. Thus, the ekphrasis in Sergey Gandlevskiy’s lyrics represents the meanings related to the problems of reality and fiction, time and eternity, life and death, thereby contributing to the author’s revision of human cognitive abilities.
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