Original scientific paper
Genre Issues of “Ispit Savjesti”/ “Soul-Searching” by Tin Ujević
Zvjezdana Radoš
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zadar
Abstract
The paper deals with genre issues of “Ispit Savjesti” / “Soul- Searching” by Tin Ujević, the text that is usually genre-defined as an essay or as confessional prose, but also contains the elements of autobiography, lyrical prose and feuilleton. The analysis of the self-referential and meta-textual commentaries inserted into “Ispit Savjesti” and the style and poetic and structural characteristics of this text (especially the confessional subject and composition), also when compared with selected texts of Catholic mystics and with some New Testament passages, shows a high degree of the author’s creative poetic awareness, placing his own writing in genre context (especially in autobiographical and Catholic mystical confessional literature). The analysis also shows a noticeable agreement betwe- en the form (primarily confessional prose, written as “neurasthenic document”) and the content (auto-analysis of soul during “psychic anxiety”).
Keywords
Tin Ujević; confessional prose; essay; autobiography; Catholic mystic writers
Hrčak ID:
155275
URI
Publication date:
7.4.2016.
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