BETWEEN THE IMAGE AND THE CONCEPT: A SYMBOL IN “THE EMBLEMATICS OF MEANING” BY A. BELY
The study examines the metaphorization of the symbol in the article “The Emblematics of Meaning” by Andrey Bely. The article reveals a metaphorical model that structures the category of the symbolic. The metaphorical model includes abstract, geometric, and concrete elements that “build” the area of the symbolic in different ways. The specificity of framing the symbolic category is determined by the modality of the elements. Thus, numerical symbolism helps to reveal the abstract structure of the symbol associated with the ontological unity orientation and the remedy for duality in the “third element”; geometric symbolism allows us to show a symbol as a visual-abstract structure; objective-perceptual images metaphorize the ways of comprehending the symbolic phenomena and initiate the appearance of certain motives associated with predicates of objective images. The article shows that the dialectic of thought in “The Emblematics of Meaning” semantically duplicates the plot development, which leads to the image-discursive duality of Bely’s article. In the article, the metaphorical model is considered in a semantic, cognitive and mythopoetic perspective; it is concluded that the symbol is not only a theme, but also a compositional and constructive principle of “The Emblematics of Meaning”.