Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.67.8
FROM THE BIBLE TO THE POETIC UNIVERSE
Đurđica Garvanović-Porobija
orcid.org/0000-0002-0266-9299
; Adventist Theological College, Maruševec, Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents the results of the research on biblicisms in the recent poetry of Croatian poets from the nineties of the 20th century to the twenties of the 21st century. The goal is to find out the poet's relationship to the biblical prototext in the form of poetic references and what are the functions of biblicisms in the lyrical discourses of the sele cted poets. Poets who write poetry with a dominant poetic function and predominantly secular ideological sign were selected, namely: Lana Derkač, Jozefina Dautbegović, Delimir Rešicki, Dorta Jagić, Marko Pogačar, Franjo Nagulov, Davor Šalat, Sven Adam Ewin, Ivan Koprić and Ivan Klarić. A review of their lyrical discourses will show a different form of reference to the biblical prototext and the relationship to it: quotation, paraphrase, allusion, adaptation, subversion, affirmation and negation. The functions of biblicisms will also be multiple, from the creation of majesty, humorous effect, luddism, parallelism, antipathy, characterization to the destruction of traditional understandings and deconstruction, demythologization and new mythologizing and mystification. Due to the particularly creative adaptation of biblicisms, two poetry collections by Davor Šalat, "Tumačenje zime" (2009) and "Zvijezde, davna lica spasenih" (2019) are presented with special attention, which will deepen and insight into the figurative poetic world of that author and show the functioning of biblicisms in lyrical discourses of those two collections of poems. The analysis starts from the assumption that the primary function of biblicisms and related references to Judeo-Christian cosmology in the discourses of the two aforementioned collections is the semanticization of the basic theme and figuration of the spatio-temporal structure and its enrichment with barely significantly flickering hope, with a special impact on the transmission of the experience of literature. Such a function of biblicisms plays a noticeable role in the development of the subject, from his disorientation to finding the space of love, which is reached by a vague, mystical itinerary that connects both collections with a ten-year experience of poetic silence. The subject, close to the author, is the bearer of the undertaking that establishes the poetic cosmos, from the creation of the world to its development that encompasses the universe and to its possible disruption or survival. The methodology of this analysis includes the detection of all biblicisms and related references, as well as intertextual analysis and discernment of the stylistic function of biblicisms in the basic text.
Keywords
biblicism; Croatian poetry 1990–2020; Davor Šalat; spatio-temporal structure; subject
Hrčak ID:
315184
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Publication date:
14.3.2024.
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