Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij
In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy. A special role is played in Vysockij's oeuvre by the so-called “longing for a heroic era”, which is sometimes expressed explicitly, but m...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:20.500.12854/69934 2023-05-15T18:30:42+02:00 Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij CURLETTO, MARIO ALESSANDRO 2015-01-01 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69934 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12854/69934 en eng 2612-7679 20.500.12854/69934 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69934 undefined Directory of Open Access Books hisphilso litt Book https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_2f33/ 2015 fttriple https://doi.org/20.500.12854/69934 2023-01-22T18:21:58Z In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy. A special role is played in Vysockij's oeuvre by the so-called “longing for a heroic era”, which is sometimes expressed explicitly, but more often found in the implicit representation of “longing for a heroic deed”. Vysockij's conception of the heroic deed or feat (podvig) casts this as a moral and spiritual state that contrasts sharply with the surrounding world and with everyday life. While Vysockian "longing for a heroic deed" can be associated with specific geographic contexts (including mountains, the taiga, glaciers in the North), this articles argues that it was the peculiar chronotope of the Great Patriotic War that served as the quintessential context for the heroic feat in Vysockij's universe. Book taiga Unknown |
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In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy. A special role is played in Vysockij's oeuvre by the so-called “longing for a heroic era”, which is sometimes expressed explicitly, but more often found in the implicit representation of “longing for a heroic deed”. Vysockij's conception of the heroic deed or feat (podvig) casts this as a moral and spiritual state that contrasts sharply with the surrounding world and with everyday life. While Vysockian "longing for a heroic deed" can be associated with specific geographic contexts (including mountains, the taiga, glaciers in the North), this articles argues that it was the peculiar chronotope of the Great Patriotic War that served as the quintessential context for the heroic feat in Vysockij's universe. |
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