Poetic utterance: performativity and intersubjectivity in Adrian Urmanov’s utilitarian poems
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About the Author:
Alexandru COSMESCU 
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Institutul de Filologie „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” al USM
E-mail: alexandru.cosmescu[@]sti.usm.md
Abstract: The present paper explores the enunciative and performative dimension of poetic discourse, emphasizing that the poem is not a mere object but an utterance anchored in an intersubjective practice. In Wittgensteinian terms, as adopted by H. Meschonnic, this involves a form of life intertwined with a form of language. Using Adrian Urmanov’s utilitarian poems as an example, we offer an analysis of the way in which the poetic utterance operates dialogically, constituting both the speaker and the addressee as subjects within a performative interaction that redefines them. The subject of the poetic utterance offers the addressee the possibility of inhabiting the same discursive position, potentially becoming a new source of the same poetic utterance to the extent that they recognize themselves in it. The stake of the poetic act is an ethical one: the transformation of the form of life of its co-subjects.
Keywords: poetic discourse, performativity, intersubjectivity, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Henri Meschonnic, Adrian Urmanov