The Numerological Code in Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry: Maksym Kryvtsov’s Poems from the Embrasure and Anthology Love 2.0: Love and War.

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dc.contributor.authorTetiana M. Starostenko
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-10T11:34:15Z
dc.date.available2025-12-10T11:34:15Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-02
dc.description.abstractThe article examines the numerological code and numerical symbolism in the Ukrainian poetic tradition of the military discourse within the period of the full-scale invasion. The research focuses on the ways numbers operate as semiotic, mnemonic, and existential categories, mediating between trauma, language, and memory. The purpose of study is to identify the functional potential of numerical markers in shaping the artistic and semantic dominants, as well as the ontological dimensions of modern war poetry, based on the collection Poems from the Embrasure by Maksym Kryvtsov and the anthology Love 2.0: Love and War. The main objectives include detecting and systematizing the types of numerical symbolism, tracing the transformation of archetypal numerical images under traumatic experiences, establishing correlations between numerological codes and the existential states of the lyrical subject, and substantiating the significance of the numerological code as a means of artistic representation of collective trauma and postmemory. The methodological framework integrates structural-semiotic, hermeneutic, comparative, and contextual approaches, as well as motif and symbolic analysis. The study draws on the Western tradition of numerical criticism (W.F. Hopper, A. Fowler, C. Butler) and adapts its conceptual tools to the Ukrainian literary context, where numbers function as a hybrid of linguistic signs, mythopoetic archetypes, and ethical categories. Enkvist’s distinction between statistical and symbolic numbers, Waterfield’s archetypal interpretations of numerical triads, and Pythagorean integrity, as well as Godwin’s analysis of completeness in sacred numerology, have been incorporated. The study employs Batts’s approach to numerical structures in literary texts along with Medieval transcendent significance, while adopting Fisher’s methodology for detecting the “noble numbers” within the poetic architecture and kabbalistic semantic layers specific to individual poetics. Hopper’s cultural-contextual framework for numerical symbolism and Major’s analysis of symbolic systems across traditions inform the cross-cultural dimension of this investigation, complemented by Moretti’s quantitative methodologies for analyzing numerical distribution patterns. Focusing specifically on lyrical poetry, this research examines how numerical codes operate within the poetic systems at both structural-compositional and symbolic-archetypal levels, studying how contemporary lyrical texts may employ deliberate semantic ambiguity in their numerical architecture, wherein meaning becomes fluid and participatory, transforming numerical language into an existential poetic gesture that embodies postmodern interpretive multiplicity. Thus, the approach enables the interpretation of numerical symbolism not merely as an element of poetic form, but as a dynamic mode of cognitive and emotional processing of wartime experiences. The results demonstrate differentiated numerical paradigms that fluctuate according to the speaker’s discursive position. The combatant discourse reveals somatic numerology (50×50 cm, 120 kg), militarytechnical codification (200, 300, b/k, MARCH), and the metrics of liminal endurance (500 meters under fire, counting to one hundred before the attack), expressing the bodily and procedural nature of survival. Conversely, the rear discourse features blurred numeration (endless days, countless strings) and symbolic temporal dilation (50 days as half a century), articulating the psychological stretching of time and the instability of perception under prolonged uncertainty. It has been established that the numerological code performs several core functions: depersonalizing (numbers instead of names, like 234, 457, 451), sacralizing (biblical and archetypal numbers, including 3, 5, 14, 33), temporal-traumatic (dates 2014, 24.02.2022 as mnemonic nodes of collective experience), and existential-meditative, where counting becomes a ritual of resistance and a means of preserving mental integrity. Numbers thus transcend their quantitative nature, transforming into ontological markers of war, mediating between speech and silence, presence and absence, memory and oblivion. The study concludes that the numerological code in Ukrainian war poetry after 2022 constructs a distinctive semiotic and philosophical model through which poets articulate the ineffable dimensions of trauma and convert loss into a form of symbolic creation. The number emerges as a vehicle of apophatic expression, a language of the unspeakable that preserves the sacred memory of war within the evolving cultural space of Ukrainian resistance.
dc.identifier.issn3041-217X (print)
dc.identifier.issn3041-2188 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/6425
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAlfred Nobel University
dc.subjectnumerological code
dc.subjectnumerical symbolism
dc.subjectmilitary discourse
dc.subjecttraumatic experience
dc.subjectdepersonalization
dc.subjectsacred numerology
dc.subjectнумерологічний код
dc.subjectчислова символіка
dc.subjectвоєнний дискурс
dc.subjectтравматичний досвід
dc.subjectдеперсоналізація
dc.subjectсакральна нумерологія
dc.titleThe Numerological Code in Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry: Maksym Kryvtsov’s Poems from the Embrasure and Anthology Love 2.0: Love and War.
dc.title.alternativeНумерологічний код сучасної української воєнної поезії: «Вірші з бійниці» Максима Кривцова та антологія «Любов 2.0: Любов і Війна» (англійською)
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Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology