CONCEALED ERASURE AND THE GENERATION OF VISUAL-TEXTUAL IMAGES IN THE BOOK OF LAMB: STYLISTIC AND INTERPRETIVE ASPECTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the technique of erasure as a strategy of poetic transformation in the evolution of the American sonnet of the postmodern era. The article reveals the specifics of the reinterpretation of the canonical sonnet form in the conditions of postmodern poetics, which is characterized by the deconstruction of traditional structures, intertextuality and intensive experiments with the architectonics of speech material. It is determined that erasure functions as a special way of creating a new text by reducing the already existing one, as a result of which a poetic text with fundamentally new semantic and compositional characteristics is formed.
It is found that the use of the erasure technique contributes to the transformation of the sonnet from a strictly regulated form into an open text model, in which fragmentation, lacunarity, and the visual-architectural organization of the page play an important role. Particular attention is focused on the analysis of the poetic practice of Jen Berwin, in particular her book Nets, where an artistic reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's sonnets is carried out by partially erasing them due to the suppression of the original text. It is revealed that as a result of the reduction of the text, a palimpsest effect arises, which ensures the simultaneous presence of the canonical source and a new author's statement.
It is proven that the technique of erasure performs intertextual, semantic and visual-architectural functions, forming a new type of poetic structure, characteristic of postmodern literature. It is concluded that the use of the technique of erasure as an artistic strategy is an important factor in the evolution of the American sonnet, which testifies to the ability of the traditional form to adapt in the conditions of the postmodern cultural context.