Croatology, Vol. 10 No. 1, 2019.
Original scientific paper
Biblical Characters and Events in the prose of Mara Švel-Gamiršek
Vladimira Rezo
orcid.org/0000-0003-1446-4896
; Fakultet hrvatskih studija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Borongajska cesta 83d, 10000 Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analysis Mara Švel-Gamiršek’s prose texts of Christian inspiration published in the prose collection Legende and in the Catholic journals: Marulić, Veritas, Kana, Pax, Glas koncila, Vjesnik đakovačke biskupije, Gore srca and Danica. The special emphasis is given to the texts dealing with characters and events present in the Bible. The analysis covers the models of character development, their representation in the words and thoughts in the text, the position of the narrator, the type of focalisation, the narrative line, etc. The focus is also on the literary historians’, theoreticians’ and critics’ analysis of Švel-Gamiršek’s prose of Christian inspiration from the period of publishing the prose collection Legende until today. By doing that, the paper traces changes in the literary evaluations of that part of Švel-Gamiršek’s opus through the time. Since the respective works are a sort of beletrization of the biblical events, the special attention is given to the Biblical intertext, while stressing similarities and departures from the original text. Finally, the paper also analysis Biblical symbols, mostly plants and animals, as an important element of the texts of Christian inspiration.
Keywords
Mara Švel-Gamiršek; prose of Christian inspiration; prose collection Legende; Biblical characters and events; Biblical intertext; biblisms; christianisms; symbols
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240644
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Publication date:
16.3.2020.
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