The Anthroponymicon of Gennady Oyar (based on the collection "Echoes of the Heart")

This article continues the research of the authors who focus on the contextual poetics of Mari poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries as a subject of literary studies. It examines the anthroponymy of a national poet, which is considered by the authors of the article as a way of presenting contextual content (a way of creating a special artistic space in a literary text). The purpose of the article is to identify the features of using anthroponyms as a technique of contextual poetics in modern Mari poetry, using the literary and creative experience of the well-known poet Gennady Oyar (Sabantsev) as an example. This is the first time that such a goal has been stated and implemented in regional and national literary studies. The specific material of the study is the poetic texts of the Mari poet Gennady Oyar, included in his collection "Shumsavysh" (Echoes of the Heart) (2008), which contain anthroponyms in their artistic structure. The research methods include historical-genetic, comparative-typological, and structural-semantic analysis; the work also uses textual, intertextual, and contextual analysis of literary works. The study characterizes the main types of anthroponyms in the lyrics of Gennady Oyar, taking into account their structure and sources; it identifies the main functions of anthroponyms that are relevant in the context of contextual poetics; it reveals the features of the author's cultural outlook (contextual competence) of the Mari poet; it shows the specifics of the author's reflection on anthroponymic intertexts; and it raises the question of the role of anthroponyms in the author's ethno-identification. The authors of the article conclude that different types of anthroponyms in Gennady Oyar's poetry collection "Echoes of the Heart," while performing meaning-forming and symbolic, socio-historical and ethno-cultural, intertextual, emotional-evaluative, and authorial, psychological, and identification functions, contribute to the text's rich contextual content, making them a valuable tool for contextual poetics. The anthroponyms used by the poet are a way to reconstruct the contextual content of a literary text, to understand the author's intention, semantics, and poetics of his works.