October 3, 2025Open Access

Russian Poetry in the Literary and Journalistic Speeches of D. S. Merezhkovsky in the 1900s–1910s: From Textual Criticism to Antinomian Poetics

Key Points

Quotations from russian poetry function as diverse sources of meaning in Merezhkovsky's works, enhancing themes.
The research identifies unique uses of poetic text, demonstrating connections to antinomic thinking and mythologeme.
This analysis compiles a previously unorganized corpus of russian poetry referenced in journalistic works.
Understanding these poetic references sheds light on Merezhkovsky's innovative literary and journalistic approaches.

Abstract

The authors of the article consider for the first time the cases of using “foreign” poetic text in the literary and journalistic works of D. S. Merezhkovsky of the 1900s–1910s. The research establishes that quotations from Russian poetry, the corpus of which has not been compiled before, can function in different ways: they can be a direct source of illumination of a particular topic, a marker of the writer’s antinomic thinking, as well as a mythologeme, the content of which is formed by increasing the meaning and in some cases has autoreflexive potential.

Russian Poetry in the Literary and Journalistic Speeches of D. S. Merezhkovsky in the 1900s–1910s: From Textual Criticism to Antinomian Poetics

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