"Through newspapers": the beginning of the World War I in Russian poetry Cover Image

«Из газет»: начало первой мировой войны в русских поэтических текстах
"Through newspapers": the beginning of the World War I in Russian poetry

Author(s): Yulia Minutina-Lobanova
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Russian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: world war I; Russian poetry; Russian press; war in poetry; perception of war in literature

Summary/Abstract: This paper concentrates on the Russian poetry in newspapers in summer 1914 about the beginning of the First World War. The analysis revealed the main poetics and subject characteristics of these poems, such as proper nouns abundance, active usage of the historicisms and archaisms, the combination of enthusiastic attitude to war and its perception as irrelevant events etc. Thereby we can evaluate the immediate perception of the beginning of the war by contemporaries and get an overview of poetical and informational context in Russia in July–August 1914.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 155
  • Page Range: 79-88
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian