THE SEMANTIC FUNCTION OF INTERTEXT AND SELF-REFERENCE IN J. BRODSKY’S POEM POLONAISE: A VARIATION Cover Image

Смыслообразующая роль интертекста и автореференции в стихотворении И. Бродского «Полонез: Вариация»
THE SEMANTIC FUNCTION OF INTERTEXT AND SELF-REFERENCE IN J. BRODSKY’S POEM POLONAISE: A VARIATION

Author(s): Olga Baraš
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Brodsky, intertext; self-reference; motive structure; Polish poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the layer of associations and implications connected with Poland andPolish poetry in Josif Brodsky’s poem Polonaise: A Variation (those concerning A. Mickiewicz,C.K. Norwid, K.I. Gałczyński, K.K. Baczyński, F. Chopin, and M.K. Ogiński), which, together withthe author’s references to his own earlier poems, forms a parallel plot of the poem at the intertextuallevel.

  • Issue Year: 2/2014
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 105-111
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian