Valery Bryusov in the 1890's and 1900's: Life-Creation Strategies and Forms of Self-Representation

Student: Gremiakina Mariia

Educational Programme: Russian and Comparative Literature (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2024

This paper examines the marital and family relations of V. Bryusov in the context of his life-creation program. On the material of the poet's correspondence with his wife, I. Bryusova, as well as some of his poetic and prose texts, the main author's strategies of mythologizing marriage are revealed, which highlighted the “bourgeois” model of the poet's life-building in contrast to the “decadent” one. A separate subject of the study is the analysis of Brusov's perception of his own family tree, which clarifies the duality of the poet's self-representation.

Full text (added June 5, 2024)

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses