Original scientific paper

Aesthetics of shock – the apory of linguistic and extralinguistic in Marulić's epigrams

Magdalena Mrčela ; II. Gymnasium of Split, Croatia

Abstract

This paper deals with the problems of connection and conflict between the available data on Marulić's life and the work known as Glasgow verses. Those thematically and stylistically diverse epigrams were discovered at the end of the 20th century and revealed Marulić's topics unknown before. The codex of the University of Glasgow Library contains 141 epigrams, together with translation, indices, commentary and epilogue. This paper will provide a stylistic reading leaning on Novaković's philological analysis, referencing the most common figures of speech that Marulić used in order to achieve various functions. Moreover, this paper will observe the relationship between strong figurativeness and rhetorical skillfulness in a limited form of epigrams. As the most important site of Marulić's epigrams, we highlight the aesthetics of shock that the reader may experience due to the extralinguistic apory of his moral life based on Christianity and its teachings. Another strong contradiction will be exposed through referencing some of the author's religious views expressed in Evanđelistar, which strongly oppose the vocabulary, topics and behavioral patterns expressed in the selected epigrams. The aim of the paper is to point out the dual nature of Marulić's works confirmed by the existence of love, satire and even lewdness in the Glasgow verses, which are in discord with Marulić's works based on the strict moralism of the Christian views.

Keywords

apory; epigrams; stylistics; Marko Marulić; aestetics of shock

Hrčak ID:

262299

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/262299

Publication date:

1.7.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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