The anthropogonic myth of the avant-garde and poetic automethaphors
The article presents an attempt to interpret certain aspects of the anthropogonic myth of the Russian avant-garde as realized at the level of metaphorical structures of avant-garde poetic texts. The study employs the analytical framework of the cognitive theory of metaphor; a corpus of anthropocentric metaphors is analyzed in detail, with particular attention ...
‘Hallberd of Balderdash’ or an attempt at decoding Alexei Chicherin’s construemes (dedicated to the 100th anniversary of their publication)
This paper is the first attempt to interpret the visual 'construemes' by the constructivist poet Alexei N. Chicherin, published in the anthology Mena vsekh (Moscow, 1924). 'Construemes' can be considered the most enigmatic artefacts of the Russian avant-garde. Although 'construemes' can be easily confused with meaningless visual zaum ('the transrational'), Chicherin's actions and the very nature of his personality prevent one from interpreting 'construemes' as actionist endeavours to scandalise ...
