Abstract.
ANCIENT ROME IN V. BRYUSOV’S ARTISTIC COGNITION
Katerina Palii
Germanic Philology and Translation
Department, National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Poltava,
Ukraine.
Svitlana Astakhova
Germanic Philology and Translation
Department, National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Poltava,
Ukraine.
Abstract
Background: In modern
literary criticism the researchers actively look through creative heritage of
the writer, carry out search of new methods of comprehension of his creativity,
and, especially,
in studying of historical heritage. There are many unresolved issues that
concern the modern literary critic. In this regard, there was a need to review
the legacy of the writer, to analyze the lyrical features, to study the
critical approaches of researchers and their analysis of the poetics of
V. Bryusov, to determine historical and mythological characters and their
modern interpretation.
Purpose: to
observe the influence of the historical and
literary context for creating images of the characters of the writer.
Results: In V. Bryusov’s creativity the big gallery
of images of outstanding commanders, governors, historical figures round which
geroiko-patriotic motives are concentrated (protection of the state, a public
debt, courage and valor in fight against enemies, etc.). Representing destinies
of people of those far times, V. Bryusov looked for analogies with modern
to him an era, comparing surrounding reality
to majestic images and events of Ancient Rome. Strong and strong-willed characters
from cultural history of Ancient Rome in art consciousness of V. Bryusov
were opposed to everything to
spiritually low and morally weak, public chaos and decline at a boundary of the
XIX–XX centuries. In delineation of historical figures and known events
V. Bryusov leaned not only on documentary sources, but also on myths that
was embodied in a number of mythological motives which purpose was a creation
of an aura of heroics round this or that image (Anthony, Cleopatra, Julius
Caesar, Sula, etc.).
Discussion: V. Bryusov had a keen sense of
history, therefore, in his lyrics, the concept of “past” is quite powerfully manifested, which is closely
related to the concepts of “present” and “future”. The writer perceived historical processes through the
prism of development and laws of world
culture, in the organic connection of images, events and consequences.
Therefore, his historical and socio-political motives were projected
onto the present, on the search for humanistic ways of developing society.
Keywords: historicism, lyrics, motive, image, tradition, anthology, poetics,
innovation.
Vitae. Katerina
Palii is a Candidate of Philology, Senior Lecturer of Germanic Philology and
Translation Department at National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”.
Her areas of interests include comparative linguistics, lexicology, history of
the English language, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, literary criticism,
foreign literature, history of literature.
Correspondence: e.paliy777@gmail.com
Vitae. Svitlana Astakhova is a Lecturer of Germanic Philology and Translation
Department at National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”. Her
areas of interests include lexicology, theoretical
phonetics, stylistics, translation studies, foreign literature, German language
teaching.
Correspondence: astahova.svitlana64@gmail.com
