Open Access“In case of...” Poems as an Actualization of Cultural Topics. On Pushkinʼs epistle «<To N. D. Kiselev>
Author(s) -
Eléna Kardash,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
vremennik puškinskoj komissii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0236-2481
DOI - 10.31860/0236-2481-2022-36-133-147
Subject(s) - poetry , literature , happiness , ideology , narrative , philosophy , sociocultural evolution , art , psychology , sociology , anthropology , social psychology , law , politics , political science
This article presents a detailed historical and literary commentary on Pushkinʼs epistle “ ” (1828). By analyzing the poemʼs core formulations of language and topoi (“health and freedom”, “water and wine”), the author reveals their connections with epigrammatic plots and philosophies of happiness in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as with the medico-hygienic and didactic narratives which synthesized these traditions, and which are travestied in Pushkinʼs epistle. Thus, the minor impromptu “in case of...” poem provides new possibilities for explaining and conceptualizing Pushkinʼs poetic and ideological tools, which were themselves conditioned by sociocultural, generic and literary contexts of the epoch.