PUSHKIN MYTHOLOGEME – “THE SWARTHY YOUTH” IN POETRY BY ANNA AKHMATOVA

• Main Author: Shemetova, T.G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marina Sokolova Publishings 2019-03-01
• Series: Russian Linguistic Bulletin
• Subjects: Russian literature; culture of 20th century; Pushkin; Akhmatova; mythologeme of “the swarthy youth”; русская литература; культура ХХ века; Пушкин; Ахматова; мифологема «смуглый отрок»
• Online Access: http://rulb.org/wp-content/uploads/wpem/pdf_compilations/1(17)/1(17).pdf#page=21

The article describes the reflection of some mythologemes of the cultural myth about Pushkin in fiction of the 20th century. Mythologemes are studied in order to identify the different stages of the myth's formation and its evolution. Such stages include: the myth's formation the 19th century, its turning into a means of transmitting cultural memory in the early 20th century and then into means of manipulating mass consciousness in the Soviet era. As a result of analyzing the mythologeme of "the swarthy youth" in the works of Anna Akhmatova, it was proved that the reviewed texts are focused on the search for connectedness of historical phenomena and the personality of the writer. Therefore, the mythogenicity of the nature of artistic thinking in the works of the authors considered by us.