The image of the heart in poetic and patristic synthesis
- Authors: Bychkov D.M.1, Gushchina K.N.2
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Affiliations:
- Astrakhan State Technical University
- Astrakhan State Medical University
- Issue: Vol 29, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 27-33
- Section: LITERARY CRITICISM
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/40022
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-27-33
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/YWFIQA
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Abstract
The religious, philosophical and poetic context of the functioning of the image of the heart in the discourse of Russian symbolist poets is analyzed. An attempt has been made to discover mythological and Christian (evangelical and patristic) roots in the genesis of “cardio- topy”. The authors of the study rely on a wide range of works by Russian theologians and philosophers. In addition, for a more complete interpretation of the image, the latest anatomical and philosophical concepts and distant contexts (Vedic and Quranic) are involved. The work uses a cognitive-discursive approach to the analysis and interpretation of the central image of “cardiotopy” - the heart. It is concluded that the poetic and patristic perception of the image of the heart reveals a paradoxical convergence of meanings: the traditional interpretation of the image as a symbol of the human soul, which experiences various emotions and experien- ces, and conveys deep thoughts and feelings of the subject, is interfaced in the poetic space of the text with speech-thinking and cognitive functions that communicate with the external and internal world, with the Creator (God), as well as a complex process of intuitive cognition, implemented by stimuli of various modalities (memory, speech thinking, perception).
About the authors
Dmitriy M. Bychkov
Astrakhan State Technical University
Email: dmitriybychkov@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0114-7341
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages and Speech Communications Department
16 Tatishcheva St, Astrakhan, 414025, Russian FederationKseniya N. Gushchina
Astrakhan State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: k.churzina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7235-6263
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Russian Language Department
121 Bakinskaya St, Astrakhan, 414000, Russian FederationReferences
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