Open AccessPrinciples of surrealist humour in the poetry of Leonid Shvab
Author(s) -
Oleg S. Gorelov
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni n.a. nekrasova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0817
DOI - 10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-2-187-191
Subject(s) - comics , poetry , literature , art , context (archaeology) , realisation , criticism , contradiction , aqueous humour , aesthetics , philosophy , history , psychology , epistemology , physics , intraocular pressure , archaeology , quantum mechanics , psychiatry
The article analyses the poetic style of Leonid Shvab, which is described as impassive and distant in literary criticism, while the contrasting elements of humour and violence play an important role in the texts. Through the theory of surrealist humour, which clarifi es this contradiction, the nature of the comic in Leonid Shvab’s texts is investigated, and the aestheticemotional specifi city of his poetry is clarifi ed, as well as its perception by the reader. The basic mechanisms of surrealist humour – the creation of a mise en scène (theatricality), the realisation of gallows humour, the functioning of interrelated concepts of objective humour and objective chance – and their specifi c action in Leonid Shvab's verses, which turns out to be included in the context of Russian prose of the 1920s and 30s years (Andrei Platonov) and in the context of objectoriented philosophy.