On Some Features of the Organization of the Subject Structure of A. A. Galich’s Songs

Aim. To identify and describe the main features of the organization of the subject structure of A. A. Galich’s songs, paying the greatest attention to those song texts in which the lyrical subject is realized through personal pronouns (the most common way of representing the lyrical subject in the Russian language paradigm).
Methodology. The research uses an immanent and comparative analysis of poetic texts. The main subject of the analysis is the subjective structure of Galich’s songs, since this element of the artistic system was especially carefully developed by the author himself throughout his creative career: from his earliest to the latest songs.
Results. The article describes the most frequently used by A. Galich methods of forming the subject structure of a poetic text: combining within one poem different pronouns marking the appearance of different points of view, introducing literary quotations into the lyrics and actively challenging the statements contained in them, which indicates the emergence of a kind of dialogue between the lyrical characters of Galich and the ones of other poets (Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam). In addition, because of the analysis, a number of themes and motives are revealed, the appeal to which by Galich is necessarily accompanied by a complication of the subject structure of the text.
Research implications. The analysis of the subjective structure of A. A. Galich’s songs clearly demonstrates the importance of the categories “lyrical subject” and “point of view” for a specific poetic text and for poetry as a kind of literature. The results of the study can be used in the following courses: “Theory of literature”, “Analysis of literary text”, “History of Russian literature of the twentieth century”.

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