По, Бодлер, Достоевский: Блеск и нищета национального гения

Summary: In his essays and notes on literary history and poetics, Roman Jacobson brings together the names of Poe and Baudelaire in relation to their statements about the role of structure, symmetry, and “mathematics” in the poetical text, and touches on the names of Baudelaire and Dostoevsky in the context of his reflection on the interrelation of Romanticism and Realism. Analysis of these references allows the treatment of a number of related topics, such as the sources of Jacobson’s ideas about Classicism (vs Romanticism) in Pushkin; metaphor and metonymy as two basic and polar tropes; the significance of references to Dostoevsky in the discussion of “exaggerations” in art; the relationship between interrelation of grammar and lexical analysis in Jacobson’s approach to the literary text; and interrelation of the Enlightenment and Romantic heritage in Jacobson’s structural poetics.

Key words: Poe, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Roman Jacobson, poetics, textual analysis, history of poetics, tropes, grammar of poetry, Classicism, Romanticism, Realism.

List of contributors

Elina Absalyamova specializes in nineteenth-century French literature and comparative studies. Serving as Associate Professor at Paris 13 University, her research focuses on the problems of genre typology (literary criticism, essay, novel, (auto)biography), the poetics and pragmatics of periodicals, and adaptations of literary works in art and the media. She has published, inter alia, articles on settings of Baudelaire and other French poets by Russian composers (Moscow SUP, 2011) and on comic versions of Poe’s works (7.KFRV Essen, 2011; The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 15.1).

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Alexey Astvatsaturov (1945 – 2015) was Professor at the University of Foreign Languages (St. Petersburg). He lectured on philosophy, cultural studies, the history of foreign literatures, German Romanticism, and Goethe, and wrote numerous essays on classical German literature in journals and collections, notably: “Goethe and the World of Play” in Goethe. Life. Traditions (St. Petersburg, 2002. Pp. 4 – 34), “Three Nietzsche’s Great Books” in Friedrich Nietzsche. Poems. Philosophical Fiction (St. Petersburg, 1993. Pp. 22 – 60), etc. He is the author of Poetry. Philosophy. Play (Gelikon Plus, 2010).

Andrey Astvatsaturov is a writer, literary historian, specialist in English and American literature. He is Interim Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Field of Languages and Literature at St. Petersburg State University. He is the author of three monographs: T.S. Eliot and His Poem The Waste Land (St. Petersburg SUP), The Phenomenology of Text: Play and Repression (NLO, 2007), and Henry Miller and the Parisian Trilogy (NLO, 2010). He wrote a collection of literary essays Salinger and Not Only (AST, 2015) as well as over 100 scholarly essays.

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Tatiana Boborykina is Associate Professor of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Field of Languages and Literature at St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include literature, theatre, cinematography, choreography, visual and plastic metaphors, and translation of literature into the languages of cinema and ballet.

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Fyodor Dvinyatin specializes in the history of Russian language, linguistic and structural poetics, Russian literature, and the history of linguistics. He works as Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University, at the Department of Russian Language and at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Field of Languages and Literature. He has contributed over twenty articles to Russian Language. School Encyclopedia (St. Petersburg SUP, 2013; 2015). He is the author of over eighty essays in such journals as Russian Literature, NLO, and Slovene and in collections published by NLO, Nauka, Yaziki russkoi kulturi, Indrik, Elseveir and others.

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