A Male Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Alina Podgornova

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of modern Mordovian women's poetry. The subject of the study is the thematic organization of the lyrical texts of the Erzya writer Alina Podgornova. The goal is to reveal the peculiarities of the representation of the male subject in her poems. Materials and Methods. The research material is the works of A. Podgornova. The study uses traditional methods of literary analysis: structural-semantic, method of holistic analysis of a literary text. Results and Discussion. The article asserts that the lyrics of A. Podgornova present a masculine lyrical subject, which indicates the renewal and enrichment of the motif-figurative cluster of national women’s poetry. It should be noted that the male lyrical subject is not a permanent form of the author's self-representation, the appeal to the “masculine mask” is determined by the author’s postmodern world view, his desire to change the established gender world order, to see life through the eyes of a man. The poet models the relationship between a woman and a man in accordance with his individual creative position, creates a subjective idea of a man’s behavior, intentions, masculine traits and their transformation under certain conditions. The article reveals the method of modeling the male image in the author’s poems, based on the rethinking of male and female archetypes and the refutation of the ideology of hegemonic masculinity, as a result of which the male subject is often depicted from a satirical perspective, is endowed with negative connotations (weakness of character, lack of ethical principles), evokes various emotions in the recipient. Conclusion. The material of the article can be used in the process of teaching philological disciplines at the university. Prospects of further research of the problem are connected with the study of features of subjective organization of lyrical works of female authors.