MADRIGAL GENRE ELEMENTS IN V. NABOKOV’S LYRICAL POETRY
The article reviews the specifics of a madrigal as an unusual genre form, analyzes its genre-shaping components, which include complimentary attitude towards the addressee, laconic brevity of the form, appellative specifics and peculiar "anti-epigrammaticality". It tracks the evolution of the genre in the Russian poetry with a special emphasis on the lyrical poetry of the Silver Age, when the lyrical talent of V. Nabokov was shaping. When resorting to the poet's work, the article reviews poems forming a certain genre nest, the content of which uses madrigal components to various extent, though not in its pure form. The review shows that the genre evolution processes typical for the Silver Age poetry were also incorporated in Nabokov's work. Using the classical traditional basis of a madrigal or its individual components, the poet builds up a lyrical discourse expanding the genre range of poetry leveraging various techniques. These include the strengthening of the dialogical principles, enhancing the role of the narrative elements (novelization), genre synthesis (diffusion of madrigal, elegy, address), new techniques in creating the character of an addressee, certain stylization, searching for new expressive means. The article draws the following conclusions: Nabokov’s poetry generally uses classical tradition as a foundation, however the author, without destroying this foundation, strives to expand genre boundaries using multiple means and levers, gradually shaping his individual style.