The article discusses a range of phenomena for which 19th-century literature established the name of “game”. In the study of symbolic behaviour, one of the most confusing questions is that of the relationship between game and ritual. Fluid boundaries between them and lack of clear idea of the nature of these phenomena have often lead to a widening of the scope of the concepts: “game” has been thought to include ritual behaviours, and the other way round.
The article is devoted to the elegiac tradition in the works of Valeryan Borodayevsky, a poet of the Silver Age. The peculiarity of Borodayevsky’s elegy is pointed out and connections with the elegies of Yevgeny Baratynsky and Fyodor Tyutchev are traced. The article brings the first research of the subject.
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