Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.67.3
IN BROAD STROKES – A LOOK AT THE LONG CONTEMPORANEITY OF POETRY
Branislav Oblučar
orcid.org/0000-0002-7222-165X
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article examines contemporary Croatian poetry through the prism of the idea of long contemporaneity (following the insights of Stipe Grgas on contemporary American literature). In the first part author considers anthologies and studies in which the 90s are treated as a new stage of contemporary poetry, which is regularly viewed in a wider time frame that goes all the way to the 1950s. In the central part of the article, attention is paid to the essays of Antun Šoljan and Branko Maleš which present opposite views on the poetic text. This opposition is then established as a framework for reading the debates about narrative poetry in the early 2000s, also formulated in the form of an opposition (the narrative vs. linguistic/postmodern poetry). In the end, these discussions serve as a background for understanding the poetry that was created after the middle 2000s, which mixes elements of narrative and metaphorical-associative discourse. In summary, the poetic production from the 90s to the present is viewed outside the established ten-year classification framework, within an approach that combines stylistic-formal and con textual insights. Special attention is paid to the issue of the affective register of poetry following the studies of Rita Felski, who emphasizes the importance of concepts such as identification, enchantment and doubt
Keywords
the long contemporaneity; narrative poetry; language poetry; doubt; enchantment
Hrčak ID:
315178
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Publication date:
14.3.2024.
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