ПОЭТИКА ПАРОДИЙНОСТИ В ДОЭМИГРАНТСКОМ ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ ИГОРЯ СЕВЕРЯНИНА (THE POETICS OF PARODY IN THE WORK OF IGOR’ SEVERIANIN BEFORE HIS EMIGRATION) ЕКАТЕРИНА КУЗНЕЦОВА (EKATERINA KUZNETSOVA) katkuz1@mail.ru Abstract This article has a twofold aim. The author analyzes selected works by the poet Igor’ Severianin from the period before his emigration (1908-1918) in the context of theories of parody, and compares his texts with Symbolist poetry and the Silver Age genre of literary parody. Severianin’s innovative poetic techniques (hyperbolism, paradox, stylistic mixing, laying bare of the device, literal treatment of metaphors, reductio ad absurdum) are explained through the lens of parody. In the poet’s oeuvre we find parodic transformation (ironic refraction) of recognizable themes, images, masks, myths, and lexical clichés of symbolism. Modernist poetic discourse is therefore objectified by means of playful deflation and mockery from a position of total authorial irony. Keywords: I. Severianin; Parody; Irony; Transformation; Symbolism; Post- symbolism Моя двусмысленная слава И недвусмысленный талант! (И. Северянин) Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Russian Literature 95 (2018) 33–62 0304-3479/© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. www.elsevier.com/locate/ruslit https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2018.01.002