Toponymical lexics in the pre-war period of A.T. Tvardovskiy’s creative work Cover Image

Топонимическая лексика в довоенный период творчества Александра Трифоновича Твардовского
Toponymical lexics in the pre-war period of A.T. Tvardovskiy’s creative work

Author(s): Inna Koroleva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: A.T. Tvardovskiy; Smolensk Poetic School; toponymicxal lexics; part played by proper names in fiction and poetry;

Summary/Abstract: The pre-war period (1926–1940) of A.T. Tvaedovskiy’s creative work, the great poet of the 20yhcentury, born in the Smolensk Region, is a period of his rising as an insuperable master of word,a people’s tribune, the time when the main traits of his poetry were developed and when his formationas a founder of the Smolensk Poetic School occurred. One of the central themes of the SPS poets, andfirst of all, A.T. Tvardovskiy himself, was the theme of “the minor” and “the big”. Motherland, whichwas materialized in significant motives through a system of toponyms. i.e. the names of geograpphical places. The article analyzes a system of macro- and mictrotoponyms and demonstrates their part inrevealing of the thematical content of numerous pre-war poems (A Trip to Zagorye, 1939, StationPochinok, 1936, and others), as well the first epical poem of the author Strana Muraviya (1936).

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 203-209
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian