Open Access«ALL GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS COULD BE ARRANGED IN THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE...»: NABOKOV’S LYRIC WORKS AS A FIELD OF SHAPING THE LITERARY CANON
Author(s) -
Y. V. Kaminskaya
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
kulʹtura i tekst
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-4077
DOI - 10.37386/2305-4077-2022-1-43-56
Subject(s) - canon , literature , creativity , index (typography) , art , field (mathematics) , sequence (biology) , philosophy , computer science , psychology , social psychology , mathematics , biology , world wide web , pure mathematics , genetics
The article analyses a range of techniques shaping the literary canon in V. Nabokov’s Russian lyric works. Vivid examples illustrating the correlation of seemingly different concepts, such as «creativity» and «science», are presented. A selective pantheon of classic authors is represented by the images of an index card and a butterfly collection. It is concluded that the inclusion or omission of writers’ names in Nabokov’s lyric works is a way of including these authors in the canon or a way of excluding them from it.