A Male Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Alina Podgornova

Introduction. Thearticle is devoted to the study of the poetics of modern Mordovian women's poetry. The subject of the study is the thematic organization of thelyrical 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 aliterary text. Results and Discussion. Thearticleasserts that thelyrics of A. Podgornova presentamasculinelyrical subject, which indicates the renewal and enrichment of the motif-figurative cluster of national women’s poetry. It should be noted that the malelyrical subject is notapermanent form of theauthor's self-representation, theappeal to the “masculine mask” is determined by theauthor’s postmodern world view, his desire to change the established gender world order, to seelife through the eyes of aman. The poet models the relationship between awoman and aman in accordance with his individual creative position, creates asubjective idea of aman’s behavior, intentions, masculine traits and their transformation under certain conditions. Thearticle reveals the method of modeling the male image in theauthor’s poems, based on the rethinking of maleand femalearchetypes and the refutation of the ideology of hegemonic masculinity, as aresult of which the male subject is often depicted from asatirical perspective, is endowed with negative connotations (weakness of character, lack of ethical principles), evokes various emotions in the recipient. Conclusion. The material of thearticle 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 femaleauthors.