Viacheslav Lebedev’s Поэма временных лет (“Primary Chronicle”): a Historiosophic Pattern and its Poetic Representation Cover Image

Поэма временных лет Вячеслава Лебедева: историософская модель и ее поэтическая репрезентация
Viacheslav Lebedev’s Поэма временных лет (“Primary Chronicle”): a Historiosophic Pattern and its Poetic Representation

Author(s): Fedor Poljakov
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: Russian historiosophy; poetry of Russian emigration; Russian émigré literature in interwar Czechoslovakia

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the symbolism of imagery in Lebedev’s epic poem in conjunction with perception of exile as a stage in unfolding historical process. It discusses Lebedev’s representation of Russian history as a journey understood within the framework of cyclical conception of time. The analysis reveals various poetic strategies that enabled the poet to incorporate medieval Russian historiosophic conceptions as well as the images going back to Vladimir Solovyev into his poetical vision.

  • Issue Year: LXXX/2011
  • Issue No: 2+3
  • Page Range: 268-281
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian
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