Поэтика литературно-критической эссеистики М. Цветаевой и традиции модернистской критики начала XX века
The Poetics of M. Tsvetaeva’s Literary Essays and the Traditions of Modernist Criticism in the Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva’s literary essays. It deals with such themes as M. Tsvetaeva’s standpoint in the literary life of the 1910s, her outlook on nature and the criticism objectives, relationship of the critic and the poet, and implementation of theoretical views in critical practice. The study has been performed in order to identify the links between M. Tsvetaeva’s patterns and literary methods and the traditions of Russian modernist criticism of the early 20th century. To achieve the above-said aim, structural, semiotic, and biographical methods have been used along with the elements of linguistic analysis of the literary and critical text. Both M. Tsvetaeva’s essays and her correspondence have served as the sources of information. The paper provides a number of examples to argue about M. Tsvetaeva’s commitment to literary criticism, as well as her negative attitude to formal approach, vulgar and biographical, historical and genetic research methods of literary creativity. Her critical work is associated with the category of respon-sibility that was important for M. Tsvetaeva. Detours on aesthetic themes are typical of the poetics of her essays.

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