Byron's Myth in Russian Decembrist Revolt: Reflexions on Wilhelm Küchelvecker's Poetics
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2024.222350Keywords:
Decembrism, Byron, KüchelbeckerAbstract
This paper analyzes the relationship between Russian Decembrist revolutionary poets and Byron’s myth. Our point of departure is the historical context of the emergence of Byronism in Russia’s 19th century and the connection between Byron’s myth and the poet-prophet in Decembrist’s civic discourse. We expose the possibilities and obstacles that challenge the construction of a lyrical subjectivity rooted in Romantic individualism in Russia’s first decades of the 19th century. Finally, we build a close-reading of Küchelbecker’s poem “Byron’s death”, in order to identify how the poet resignifies Byron’s myth aiming to defend the poet-prophet’s sovereignty and political emancipation.
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