Pushkinian tradition, myth, and text in Russian poetry in the second half of the 20th century

The research aims to conduct an axiological evaluation of the most prevalent trends in referencing A. S. Pushkin’s legacy (the Pushkinian text, myth, and cult) in relation to the Pushkinian tradition in Russian poetry in the second half of the 20th century. The paper examines the extent to which the subject has been studied and derives a typology of Pushkin’s presence in this corpus of texts. The work analyzes and compares various options for literary interpretation and use of the poet’s writings and image. The scientific novelty of the research lies in its first-ever value-based characterization of the relationship between the Pushkinian tradition and other forms of referencing Pushkin’s legacy in poems of the studied period. As a result, the research found that the Pushkinian tradition in a broad sense includes the Pushkinian text, myth, and cult; however, they can contradict this tradition as a worldview category. The trend of mixing the Pushkinian text, myth, and cult with the tradition is driven by the spread of the postmodern cultural paradigm at the turn of the centuries and millennia, which hinders the study of poetry from this period and the interpretation of Pushkin’s works within it, as the identified trends have fundamentally different relationships with Pushkin’s figure.