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Vol. 51 (2022)
Literary studies

Word Skepticism and Word-magic in Afanasy Fet’s Poetry

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2022-05-25
DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.31034/051.2022.04
Author
Zoltán Hajnády
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Keywords
poetics of the unspeakable Afanasy Fet magic of poetic language skeptical attitude toward language ineffable expressibility expressible inexpressibility
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Hajnády, Z. (2022). Word Skepticism and Word-magic in Afanasy Fet’s Poetry. Slavica, 51. https://doi.org/10.31034/051.2022.04
Abstract

This paper is devoted to Afanasy Fet’s philosophy of art. In Fet’s poetry, the virtuosic use of words is combined with linguistic skepticism, involving a feeling of verbal inexpressibility and the apotheosis of silence. The topic of his poetry is the inexpressible and unspeakable, which, paradoxically, becomes expressible and describable through impressionistic imagery, metaphoric nomination, musical effects, and metalinguistic means. Fet’s poems are highly polysemic, and the semantic implications of his texts are inexhaustible.