Записки з романо-германської філології (Apr 2015)
Conceptual Space of the Paysage in French Poetic Discourse of the second half of the 19th century
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the investigation of the structure and means of presentation of poetic information in the virtual reality of the poetic text, reflection issues of national and author’s image of the world through linguistic consciousness of the writer. The object of the study is a poetic text by the representative of French poetic discourse of the nineteenth century P. Verlaine «Soleils couchants». The subject is cognitive and linguo-synergetic presentation of the concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS in the work under consideration. The aim of the article is to define the principles of explication of the conceptual content of the chosen literary text by means of the description of architectonics of the concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS as one of the key landscape concepts of French poetic discourse of the nineteenth century. A unifying element of this holistic poetic model there is the landscape concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS, which is culturally marked for the French literature of the second half of the nineteenth century. In the poem by P. Verlaine the symbol mélancolie defines a kind of poetic programming of information via actualization of the text concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS as a representant imaginary (l'imaginaire), appearing from an image-dream delirium (rêve), inspired by the contemplation of the landscape only during a certain period of time (entre l 'aube et le coucher de soleils). The first eight lines of the verse organize the sense of the poetic text around the landscape. Through the simple sentence (sujet, verbe, complément), which is based on the parallel constructions, a vivid picture is created, resulting in naturalistic, visuality of the virtual reality simulated by the addresser involving reproduction of the sound effect. The structure of the poem is seen as hypnotic, it allows you to absorb the landscape through night-dreams and dissolve the plot in the landscape, determined in the space of poetry, supplemented with the use of a word combination soleils couchants at the end of the poem. So the text by P. Verlaine has plastic and moving structuration of poetic information, which is the result of rhythm fluctuation, lexical and syntactic, phonic repetitions, their inner transformation. Thus, mutual semantic projection is reflected: self-organization of poetic units and and uncontrollable (self)manifestation of emotional states by human psyche – the landscape concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS is actualised by text units, and it represents the symbol mélancolie. To sum up, such textual constructions make up auto-model virtual reality in which landscape elements and emotions are perceived as equivalent, forming the modernist picture of the world. The poetic model of the world - is the author's individual world view of the addresser / poet, which is (self)constructed as a result of peculiarities of conceptualization of the fragments being by means of mental categories and cognitive structures. It is reflected in the textual virtual reality, where by means of linguistic signs (linguistic picture of the world) there is imaginative reflection of objective or possible reality (globalized picture of the world). The aesthetics of French symbolism, which is a clear manifestation of modernist art directions, represents a sharp breaking of ties with the previous cultural tradition, creating a special closed information system which reflects an ideal world of semantic principles generated from the impressions of the Idea of being: real (objective), spiritual (subjective), and ideal (the world of "eternal" ideas). The research of the objectification of the landscape concept SOLEILS COUCHANTS with the help of semantic, phonimic, grammatical means sofymbolist (self-)organization of information in the virtual space of the poem by P. Verlaine has given an opportunity to present a piece of poetic model of the world characteristic for the period of French Symbolism.
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