Филологический класс (Apr 2022)
A Semiotic Image of A. Pushkin in Mythopoetic Interpretation of M. Tsvetaeva
Abstract
The article examines the visual-verbal image of the poet A. Pushkin in the mythopoetic interpretation of the poet M. Tsvetaeva, presented in the essay ‘My Pushkin’. The scope of research includes the author’s vision of the poet Pushkin as a text referent of Tsvetaeva’s essay; the object of analysis encompasses the figurative and expressive ways of representing this text referent, presented from the linguosemiotic point of view. The aim of the article is to identify the image of Pushkin as a semiotic text referent of the mythopoetic world of Tsvetaeva, which receives linguistic expression in the structure of the author’s aphoristic formulas in the essay ‘My Pushkin’. To achieve this aim, the article consistently uses and interprets such notions as mythopoetics of the author of the text, game semiosis, typology of semiotic signs, text referent, visual-verbal image, author’s aphoristic formula. The research problem embraces the study of the game semiosis in Tsvetaeva’s autobiographical prose, which is characterized by a subjective analytical approach to understanding the role of the poet-creator, whose language ‘interprets the world’ on the basis of evaluative value-based categories. The article offers a textual analysis of the visual-verbal image of the poet Pushkin using the evaluative semiotic language of Tsvetaeva, in which the iconic and indexing signs of children’s perception are reformed into the encompassing symbolic conclusions of the adult poet. By way of conclusion, the authors of the article emphasise that the distinguishing features of the visual-verbal image of Pushkin, presented in the essay, are shaped by the specific character of spatial semiosis, the essence of which is revealed via linguosemiotic analysis of the author’s aphoristic maxims, characterized by both bright iconicity and clear indexicality. The research results can be used as a specific algorithm to analyze authored discourses as special semiotic systems.
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