ЖАНРЫ СТИХОТВОРНОЙ ПАРОДИИ И ЭПИГРАММЫ В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ А.Г. АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОГО И А.А. ИВАНОВА
THE GENRES OF VERSE PARODY AND EPIGRAM IN THE OEUVRE OF A.G. ARKHANGEL’SKII AND A.A. IVANOV

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers comparison of the literary methods of two most prominent Russian satiric poets, A.G. Arkhangel’skii and A.A. Ivanov. Their literary heritage was analyzed by the researches only separately and not in full. Comparison of the authors has been done for the first time. Both satirists did a lot for the evolution of the genres of verse parody and epigram. The development of these genres in the first part of the 20th century went under the sign of A.G. Arkhangel’skii, the second part – under the sign of A.A. Ivanov. A.G. Arkhangel’skii is considered to be the founder of the genres of parody and epigram in Soviet literature. A.A. Ivanov cannot be called his direct follower, for he just took the vacant place of a parodist in the late Soviet literature. The literary strategies of A.G. Arkhangel’skii and A.A. Ivanov were different. A.G. Arkhangel’skii parodied only undoubtedly prominent or widely popular authors. Unlike him, A.A. Ivanov was ready to parody every poet, both famous and unknown if he found that their poems had some failed lines, expressions or images. Many of A.A. Ivanov’s addressees became known all over the country only after their lines had been stated by the satirist as an object of parody in the popular TV-show “Vokrug Smekha” (Around the Laughter). A.G. Arkhangel’skii in his works bore in mind the classical system of genres and thought his goal was to understand the literary-artistic world of the satirized author. Both best and third-best litterateurs became objects of his smart and witty analysis. Therefore, A.G. Arkhangel’skii implemented the philological approach in his parodies and epigrams. A.A. Ivanov, having developed in the Soviet time when many previous achievements of the native culture had been long forgotten or dismissed, found his main goal in withstanding ignorance, imitation, banality, and playing familiar terms with classics. Such approach should be characterized as guarding and enlightening. The epigrams and parodies of A.A. Ivanov were not mere literary gestures, but also had some didactic functions. The only criterion for both standard and taste was the parodist’s individual point of view. Thus, the balance between playing jokes and moralizing was not always observed.

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