Аuthor - Philologist - Reader in the Light of a Computer Study of a Poetic Text
The article presents the results of an experiment in which the author's poetry is processed using the original software system «Hypertext Search for Companion-Words in Author's Texts», which reveals stable lexical combinations in different poems of the author. The resulting lexical combinations were interpreted in the process of philological analysis. In addition, the author was asked to comment on the proximity of words in a combination without referring to the context of the poems, based solely on associative communication. Readers were also invited to describe the associative relationship between the components of Vedenyapin's lexical combinations out of context. The data were compared. As a result of the study, a feature of Dmitry Vedenyapin's poetic consciousness was revealed, which consists in rationality of thinking, relying not on random associations, but on memory. This feature allowed us to build a whole poetic world, recognizably manifesting itself in different texts. The integrity and internal validity of the elements of the poetic world is easily reproduced by the author in the comments on lexical combinations and prevents the guessing of his author's associations by someone else's consciousness