Original scientific paper

The Lexis of Marulić’s Suzana

Amir Kapetanović

Abstract

To date rather few scholarly papers have been written about Marulić’s Suzana, but interest in this epyllion has not ceased since the time of the Illyrian movement. Previous investigators and textual editors have been mostly interested, as far as the language is concerned, in the localisms, the Romanic loan words, Marulić’s lexical choice with respect to the Latin text from the Scriptures, and the hermeneutic and textual problems. In this paper the lexis of Marulić’s Suzanais first of all analysed in relation to the loan words and the synonymic relations in the text. Then the linguistic and stylistic layers are analysed on the basis of a comparison of the lexis of Suzana with that of Judita, with Vetranović’s dramatic Suzana, with the medieval legal texts (Vinodol Codex and the Poljica Statute) as well as the lectionaries (Zadar). Several textological observations are put forward with respect to previous editions (a flreading« and interpretation of some words). At the end, the concept of the lie, a key word in Marulić’s Suzana, is examined from the aspect of cognitive semantics, by way of comparison with the treatment of the same concept in the medieval Flower of All Wisdom.

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Hrčak ID:

2808

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2808

Publication date:

22.4.2006.

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