Review article
https://doi.org/10.15291/csi.4004
Generic Permutations of Šoljan’s Romanca o tri ljubavi [A Romance of Three Loves]
Ana Gospić Županović
; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
Romanca o tri ljubavi (1976) [A Romance of Three Loves] occupies a prominent and privileged place within the dramatic oeuvre of Antun Šoljan by virtue of being entirely written in verse. Subtitled by the author as a ʻsentimental farceʼ in the literary-theoretical literature, it was defined poetically and generically in various ways: as a poetic drama, postmodern drama, neo-romantic play, burlesque comedy, etc., or as a farce that escapes the features of the genre. From the perspective of contemporary genealogy, the paper points out the problematic nature of the static or notion of the genre category and highlights the hypothesis about the potential of the text to participate in the framework of multiple genres. Also, given the insufficiency of more articulated generic research on this drama, fundamental differences in the understanding of the concepts of ʻromancaʼ and ʻromanceʼ are pointed out as well as the play’s function according to its genre conventions and definitions.
Keywords
sentimental farce; generic identity; genre; romance; Romanca o tri ljubavi [A Romance of Three Loves]
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288228
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Publication date:
23.12.2022.
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