Yegor Letov’s iconic grammar. Article one: Grammar of constructions
... iconicity, the paper treats grammatical constructions as a significant device for modelling artistic reality. Two principal groups of syntactic constructions employed by Letov in their iconic function are identified and systematised. The first group — indefinite-personal sentences — is analysed as a means of modelling “flickering” or impersonal subjectivity, foregrounding the iterativity and automaticity of actions within a depersonalised totalitarian worldview. The second group — nominal series — is interpreted ...
