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Irina Z. Surat
Irina Z. Surat, DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5933-0491
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Abstract:
The book on Russian lyrics is based on the analysis of separate poems, connected by common images, motifs, lyrical plots — such as “Thunderstorm”, “Tree”, “Nightingale”, “Butterfly”, “Walk”, “Dream”, “Insomnia”, “Flight into Egypt”, “Calvary” and others. Chronologically the research covers the period from the end of the 18th to the second half of the 20th century; it examines poems of Gavrila Derzhavin, Fyodor Glinka, Alexander Pushkin, Yevgeny Boratynsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Afanasy Fet, Innokenty Annensky, Ivan Bunin, Georgy Ivanov, Vladislav Khodasevich, Vladimir Nabokov, Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexander Blok, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Pavel Vasiliev, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Arseny Tarkovsky, Joseph Brodsky, Leonid Aronzon, Elena Shvarts, Olga Sedakova and other poets.
Keywords: Russian lyrics, toposes, motifs, images.