Abstract
The article examines spatial and visual-graphic strategies in contemporary Ural poetry by means of digital methods. The study focuses on two interrelated levels of poetic organization: space as a mode of world modeling and the graphic structure of the text as a way of organizing reading and page perception. The aim of the article is to show which features of contemporary Ural poetry become visible when corpus analysis, artificial intelligence tools, and literary interpretation are combined. The material of the study consists of the four-volume Anthology of Contemporary Ural Poetry and a subcorpus of visually active texts from its first volume. The methodological basis includes frequency analysis, semantic filtering, thematic classification, and the comparison of manually annotated visual-graphic structures. The results demonstrate that the spatial system of Ural poetry is organized around several stable dominants. First, natural and environmental images prevail and form an atmospheric type of space in which the world is experienced through light, cold, movement, and the bodily presence of the lyrical subject. Second, threshold and transitional objects play a crucial role and generate a poetics of in-betweenness. Third, the stable organizing model is the vertical axis “sky – earth – city,” which determines the tense interaction of natural and urban registers. The article also shows, on the material of Elena Suntsova’s poem “Vocabulary for Winter,” that graphic organization in contemporary poetry participates not only in page design, but also in the construction of rhythm, composition, and semantic dynamics. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that digital procedures are treated not as an autonomous goal, but as a means of more precise literary description. The findings may be used in further research on regional poetry, digital poetics, and the visual-graphic organization of verse.
Keywords
Ural poetry, artistic space, visual-graphic structure, digital humanities, artificial intelligence, frequency dictionary, poetics, Elena Suntsova.