The fall of genres that did not happen: formalising history of the “universal” semantics of Russian iambic tetrameter

This paper examines thematic features of the “universal” poetic meters that are disproportionately popular in a tradition. Focusing on the example of 19th-century Russian iambic tetrameter, we propose a method for diachronic analysis of semantic structure of a meter based on the combination of topi...

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Main Authors: Antonina Martynenko, Artjoms Šeļa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2023-12-01
Series:Studia Metrica et Poetica
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/smp/article/view/23742