Metamorphosis of the word. Theoretical thought of Osip Mandelstam

The most important key to the poetry of O. Mandelstam is its theoretical poetics, a system of views on the nature of a poetic word and image. The book that the reader holds in his hands is a significant step towards understanding the philosophy of language and creativity, which was expressed in the "conversation about Dante" and other literary and aesthetic works of O. Mandelstam. In the center of the study is the poet’s communication with his predecessors and readers and the processes of meaning formation in the "author - message - addressee". As E. Glazova shows, the task of poetry for Mandelstam is not to broadcast messages, but to awaken, form and develop an image as a communicative message and a request that collects comments, conversations, gossip, multiple layers of artistic traditions around itself. Mandelstam acts as a poet of metamorphosis, that is, dynamic transformation of different strata of being: landscape and portrait, visual and musical, speed, sound and color.
The book reveals the most complex system of coordinates of the poetic and theoretical thinking of Mandelstam in their inextricable unity and is addressed to philologists, culturalists and a wide circle of connoisseurs of poetry