Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.22210/ur.2022.066.1/04

Metaphoric Conceptualisation of Corporal Suffering in Nada Grubišić’s Poetry

Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić ; Department of Croatian Studies, University of Zadar
Vladimir Tomaš ; Department of Croatian Studies, University of Zadar

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Based on Nada Grubišić’s collection of poetry Djevojčica iz porječja (The Girl from the River Basin), the paper focuses on the conceptual metaphor SUFFERING IS SHARPNESS to argue that contemporary poetic expression recontextualizes the language of emotions and deepens the reader’s emotional experience. Nada Grubišić constructs suffering by connecting experiences that are conventionally associated with anger and/or irritability. The context in her poetry allows suffering to be perceived as rendering the subject passive based on the general and culturally standardised attitude, but it is also possible to interpret suffering as enabling the subject’s agency.

Keywords

emotive language, poetry, Nada Grubišić, Djevojčica iz porječja, conceptual metaphor, suffering, physicality

Hrčak ID:

281092

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/281092

Publication date:

29.7.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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