@ARTICLE{Москвин_Василий_The_2021,
 author={Москвин, Василий},
 volume={vol. LXX},
 number={No 2},
 pages={347-366},
 journal={Slavia Orientalis},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={The study shows that the content of this dark poem by Osip Mandelstam, written shortly before his arrest and tragic death, is complicated due to intertextual, motivational and circumstantial contextual factors. The intertextual complexity of a number of phrases of this poem is clarified when compared with the version of the myth of the competition of Marsyas and Apollo, presented in the treatise of the Alexandrian grammarian Dionysius Scytobrachion (III century BC) and known to the Russian reader only from the drama of Innokentij Annensky «Famira‑kifared» (1906). The motivational complexity of the phrases (including the phrase theta and iota, the meaning of which is a traditional subject of discussion) is eliminated as a result of deciphering a number of intricate semantic transfers, important as far as context circumstanstances are concerned (being a result of reference to the facts related to the biographies of O. Mandelstam and the flutist Carl Schwab, who served as the prototype for the lyrical hero of this poem). The above mentioned factors of obscuration of the text implement the “focus on the mystery” (Omry Ronen) so characteristic of Mandelstam’s late poetics. The article presents arguments in favor of the fact that such a focus is not only Aesopian language, but also, in accordance with the style tactics noted by ancient philologists, the desire to elevate the style, to give the text a prophetic shade.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={The Poem of Osip Mandelstam «The Greek flute’s theta and iota...»: Poetics of Obscurity},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/120416/2021-02-SOR-05-Moskwin.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/slo.2021.137514},
 keywords={poetics, obscurity of speech, Mandelstam, intertextuality, semantic transfer},
}