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The theme of the poetic self-portrait is closely tied in with the problem of identifying the author in the body of his work, and unmasking the literary incarnation of his personality, its psychological and physical traits. Traditionally researchers have seen it as involving the complex problem of how far one can justifiably go in equating the author with the voices emanating from his text, whatever one choses to call them — lyrical hero, poetic persona, fictional ego, narrative mask or general lyrical subject.2 For many researchers the extent of their affinity with the author remains a matter for speculation for, to date, we have found no reliable criteria for establishing the similarities and dissimilarities between the writing ‘I’ and ‘I’ in writing.3
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W. G. Weststeijn in his articles ‘The role of the “I” in Chlebnikov’s poetry. (On the typology of the lyrical subject)’, Velimir Chlebnikov (1885–1922). Myth and reality, ed. W. G. Weststeijn (Amsterdam, 1986), pp. 217–242, and ‘Liricheskii sub’ekt v poezii avangarda’, Russian literature, XXIV, II (1988), pp. 235–57, puts forwards a number of convincing arguments against linking lyrical subject and author too closely together but offers no principles for differentiating between them.
See also the interesting works of S. T. Zolian, ‘“Ia” poeticheskogo teksta: semantika i progmatica (k probleme liricheskogo geroia)’, Tynianovskii sbornik. Tret’i tynianovskie chteniia (Riga, 1988), pp. 24–8
K. G. Petrosov, ‘Teoreticheskie i istoriko-literaturnye aspekty izucheniia problemy literaturnogo geroia’, Izvestiia Akademii nauk SSSR, seriia literatury i iazyka, Vol. 48, 1989, No. 1, pp. 3–16.
Jerzy Farino, Vvedenie v literaturovedenie, Part II (Katowice, 1980), p. 12.
Joseph Brodsky, preface to Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (Ann Arbor, 1974), p. 8.
Iosif Brodskii, ‘Posleslovie k knige’ Yu. Kublanovskogo S poslednim solnstem (Paris, 1983), p. 364.
Translated by Jamely Gambrell; Joseph Brodsky, To Urania: Selected Poems 1965–1985 (London, 1988), p. 117.
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Polukhina, V. (1992). Brodsky’s Poetic Self-portrait. In: Graham, S.D. (eds) New Directions in Soviet Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22331-2_8
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