Stylistic dominants of means of representation of subtext in the lyrics of the Silver Age (comparative analysis)
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2025-3-89-97
Identification of stylistic dominants in a literary text is an important component of philological analysis. Along with the peculiarities of poetics of different directions, we can talk about the uniqueness of the style of both the author and the artwork. The analysis of various stylistic dominants allows you to more accurately determine the theme and idea of the work, to reveal the subtext. Meanwhile, stylistic dominants in the works of Silver Age authors have not been studied enough, and there is no unified classification of stylistic dominants. The purpose of the article is to identify the stylistic dominants of the authors’ representation of the subtext, depending on their affiliation to a particular trend and literary association. The research methodology is comprehensive, it is based on the use of comparative, discursive, semantic, stylistic, biographical analysis and is based on the theory of regularity, developed in the communicative stylistics of the text. The research material includes works by poets of various genres: symbolists, acmeists, futurists. For a comparative analysis, the works of several poets representing not only the trends of the Silver Age, but also various literary associations are taken: senior (the period of the late 19th century) and junior symbolists (the period of the early 20th century); three circles of acmeists (according to the degree of involvement in the poetics of acmeists); cubofuturists (V.V. Mayakovsky and others) and egofuturists (And. The Northerner). In the 20th century, the search for new ways to reflect the real world is not limited to substantive changes, but also requires formal transformations in the language of various literary trends and unique poetic associations. Often, form becomes more important to authors than content, which leads to the emergence of a wide variety of literary techniques and means of expression in their works. In the literary works of this period, one can find the original use of stylistic resources in the field of phonetics and graphics, vocabulary and phraseology, morphology and syntax. The aesthetic attitudes of each literary trend required different stylistic dominants in the representation of the subtext. By stylistic dominance, we mean the use of various regulatory linguistic and extralinguistic means or their combinations, which determine the uniqueness of the author’s idiosyncrasy and reflect his original speech style and worldview. Literary trends of the Silver Age are distinguished by unique, sometimes contradictory qualities and stylistic dominants that can reveal the subtext in different ways. It is established that the choice of stylistic dominants depends on many factors, starting from the historical literary process and ending with the peculiarities of each poet’s biography. Taking into account the dominance of certain ideological and thematic features among the authors of different literary trends, the article examines different types of subtext and regulatory means of their representation at the level of stylistic dominants. Symbolists especially often use color and sound painting to create unique images saturated with symbolism. In the poetic worldview of the symbolists, the concepts of loneliness, longing and longing are often found. Given the place of religious philosophy in the poetics of the Symbolists, we can talk about the predominance of philosophical and religious overtones in their poetry. Acmeists use precise words and allusions to various events and works of literature. As stylistic dominants, representatives of this trend are usually characterized by lexical means of representing mythological and cultural overtones, taking into account the ideological and thematic orientation of their works. Futurists often experiment with the form, changing the graphic and phonetic form of the word. Each futuristic association has its own unique features. Cubo- and egofuturists stand out in particular. Using various transformations of lexical, word-formation, graphic and syntactic means as stylistic dominants, the poets actualized philosophical and social subtexts.
Keywords: subtext, stylistic dominants, regulatory means, representation of subtext, Silver Age, symbolism, acmeism, futurism
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Issue: 3, 2025
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Rubric: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
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