Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 81 No. 2, 2011.
Original scientific paper
Religious Expression in Ljubica Kolaric-Dumic's Poetry
Marinko Lazzarich
; Faculty of teacher education, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Ljubica Kolaric Dumic's poetic expression is pervaded by an accentuated spiritual note, which brings the poetess close to religious circles of Croatian writers. This article focuses on the literary horizons of religious consciousness, the poetical dimension of a literary transposition, and it reflects on the extent in which tradition inscribed in its poetic discourse, differs from the current postmodernist culture. To begin with, the presentation locates layers of artistic-cognitive experience (intimistic, religious and patriotic), and explores the stylistic procedures in the thematisation of the divine. The second part deals with Mariologcial poems and liturgical cycles, discussing also triviality of expression. In the following part of the article we analyze metapoetic situations of patriotic discourse, synthesizing in the conclusion our understandings reached by insights utilizing the method of structural analysis. In addition to an interpretation of Ljubica Kolaric Dumic's religious expression, the article also focuses on an exploration of the stylistic incorporation of the author's writing into the corpus of contemporary Croatian poetry, and her individual contribution to that corpus.
Keywords
Croatian religious poetry; Mariology; postmodernism; exile poetry
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69781
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Publication date:
28.6.2011.
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