The Image of Christ the Beloved and the Problems of Subjectivity in the Women’s Lyrics of the Silver Age
Journal: Izvestiâ Rossijskoj akademii nauk. Seriâ literatury i âzyka
Year: 2023

The article analyzes the individual authors incarnations of the image of Christ in the poetry of Z. Gippius, M. Lokhvitskaya, E. Dmitrieva (Cherubina de Gabriak), A. Herzyk, E. Kuzmina-Karavaeva and A. Barkova. Falling in love with Christ is colored in the womens lyrics of the Silver Age with erotic tones, and his divine beauty becomes the subject of poetic description. The appeal to this image is closely connected with the problems of subjectivity and the search for a new authors identity, whic