Article

Name: Culture as a Transition / Translation. “Heavenly Animal” by Vera Pavlova

Authors: R. Grübel

Institute of Slavonic Studies University of Oldenburg, Germany

Abstract: The article considers Vera Pavlova’s collection of poems “The Heavenly Animal” as an example for two processes of the formation of culture in recent Russian history: transition, i.e. changes of the poetic subject in its cultural context and translation, i.e. changes of what the poem is talking about and how it does it. Against the background of two different concepts of the emergence of culture, Freud’s model of sublimation, that is, abstinence from sexual activity in favor of spiritual activity and the opposing model of Rozanov with equal physical and mental creative activity, it is shown that Pavlova’s verse practice is much closer to Rozanov’s concept. With the help of these concepts, examples from the mentioned collection by Pavlova are investigated and it is shown how its poetic subject changes itself in the process of cultural transition and how it changes objects and methods of organizing its text. Transitions / translations are considered in relation to different ethnic cultures, gender rela- tions, axiologies, and (for example, religious and aesthetic) functions of texts and at the end also into the apophatic culture.

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