Representation of Femininity in the Poetry Books of the Era of Revolution and Civil War

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The article examines several poetry collections of 1917–1922, which are of interest from the point of view of the representation of femininity both in the choice of titles and in the motif-figurative and thematic content. This period in the history of Russia is characterized by a crisis of previous social and cultural norms and behaviors, including traditional femininity, characterized by the emergence of new gender roles, for example, a revolutionary or a warrior woman. However, the analysis of women’s poetry books demonstrates that the former archetypes of femininity or recognizable types, for example, the image of a mother or a bohemian fatal beauty, not only do not disappear, but are also actualized, and women poets of the new wave boldly express their author’s subjectivity than their predecessors in the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Senior Researcher

Russian Federation, 25а Povarskaya Str., Moscow, 121069

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