URBAN POETRY BY K.D. BALMONT AND V.J. BRYUSOV: STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION. EXISTENTIAL REALITY
Journal: Historical and social-educational ideas
Year: 2015

The article raises the difficult question of urban poetry by K.D. Balmont and V.Y. Bryusov. Researchers have been concerned with this topic for a long time, starting with intravital criticism. However, the urban text, topos are considered mainly in a horizontal plane, that is ontological problems are at the background. This paper attempts to rethink theoretically the problems of urban poetry. A new concept of existential space is introduced. Much attention is paid to the historio-sophical ideas