ICONYMS IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

The article deals with the specifics of lexical representation of iconyms in Russian poetry of XX century. Despite the fact that the image of the Orthodox icon in their poetic texts is often addressed by the authors XIX and XX centuries, in comparison with other religious names, the names of icons are not so frequent in Russian poetry. The purpose of the article is to build an iconym paradigm, presented in poetry of XX century. The novelty of the study lies in identifying the author’s individual features of the use of names of icons in poetry XX century. The theoretical significance is due to the fact that it makes a certain contribution to the study and development of onomastics in general and literary onomastics in particular: the presented concept can be transferred to the study of icononyms in prose literary tests, as well as in journalism. The practical significance of the study can be associated with the use of the obtained materials in teaching the courses on “Stylistics” and “Philological Textual Analysis” to students of philological departments.