TACTILITY OF «ONE’S OWN» BODY AND THE BODY OF THE «OTHER» IN O. MANDELSTAM’S POETOLOGY

Abstract

The intertextuality of Mandelstam’s poetry is considered in the article from the point of view of its bodily and poetological aspects. The desire for bodily contact with the “other” world finds its expression in the verbal representation of touch or a kind of “haptic poetology”, the reflection of the verbal as partly tactile. The intensity of the representation of tactile sensations and their metaphorical use in Mandelstam’s poetry is unusual. The article analyzes various ways of his identification with both the lyrical heroes of Russian poets and the diseases of the poets themselves (A. A. Fet, F. I. Tyutchev, I. F. Annensky). In the poet’s articles, he attributes his own tactile attitude to the word to V. V. Rozanov, I. F. Annensky.