Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31953/sz.47.1.11
CRITICISM OF THE BODY AND THE BODY OF CRITICISM - THE DECONSTRUCTION OF EPOCHAL DISCOURSEIN THE CHARACTER OF LUCIJA STIPANČIĆ
Jela Sabljić Vujica
orcid.org/0009-0005-1401-9014
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Abstract
Any serious discussion about Vjenceslav Novak’s prose takes into account the fact of the impossibility of its placement into a predetermined discursive framework as the norm. From Frangeš to Nemec, literary criticism and theory in Novak’s works will rightly notice elements that simultaneously confirm and quash the opinions of the epoch. This paper, upon the example of the ambivalent treatment of the character of LucijaStipančić in the novel Posljednji Stipančići (The Last Stipančićs), will deal with the analysis of precisely these elements. There is no doubt that contradictory individual and social motives are broken through Lucia’s character. What attracts attention is the turning point: criticism becomes possible only at the moment when its realisation is no longer possible.
Using the epistemological insights of Foucault, Bachelard and the opinions of performative feminist criticism (Butler), as well as Novak’s aesthetic preoccupations (Čemu se uči teorija glazbe - Why music theory is taught), the paper will try to answer the question of the extent to which it is possible to speak of an artistically conscious act of subverting epochal language, and to what extent it concerns merely the symptomatic ideological and discursive impulses inherently present in every linguistic utterance.
Keywords
epistemology; criticism; Lucija Stipančić; corporeality; Vjenceslav Novak
Hrčak ID:
245915
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Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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