Tatar poetry in the beginning of the 21st century: Traditions and innovations

Abstract

The article identifies the development trends and changes in modern Tatar poetry, defining its traditions and paths to revival, based on poetic works created in recent years. Many works have been subjected to a scientific analysis from a hermeneutic point of view for the first time. The article determines the place of individual writers and their works in the literary process, the novelty they bring about causing changes in poetry, the original features of their innovations, all these account for the novelty and relevance of this study. The main goal of the study is to determine the main trends in modern Tatar poetry, its traditions and new creative searches, genre paradigms in thematic-problematic and poetic research. Our task is to reveal the foundations of changes in personality representations. The study shows that the changes in poetry at the beginning of the 21st century focused not so much on the content as on the form and personality, while taking poetry along new paths of the development in its mainstream. Realistic works are increasing their criticism, the national theme is becoming more active, the civic position is being enriched by social philosophy, and this revival goes hand in hand with the concept of the lyrical hero. There are three literary approaches to the transmission of critical values – hidden content, demythologization, and intertextuality. Post-realism has deepened its civic position due to the influence of philosophy, promoting innovations of genres and forms in Tatar poetry, changing the idea of the lyrical hero. The article proves that postmodern searches begin with a lyrical hero who does not see light in the chaotic life, who manifests himself in the desire to portray the world and life around as a complex theatrical performance, in the aesthetics of flickering motifs, plurality, fragmentation, and associativity. Romantic works reveal philosophical generalizations, reflections on the meaning of life, the value of life, the power of religious motifs, the activation of philosophical lyricism, the strengthening of aesthetic functions and the changes in personality representations.