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Original scientific paper

CONTEMPLATING THE SEA NARRATOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF A TEXT

Joško Božanić ; Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split, Split, Croatia


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Abstract

The article interprets an extraordinary prose narrative written shortly before its author died. The tet represents an attempt to revive the regional dialect (the Čakavian idiom from Komiža) and describe the author’s memories of childhood days spent on the island.
The article also mentions the lack of the maritime vocabulary in the standard Croatian language. On the contrary, the island idiom of the analysed text is rich in maritime terminology.
The author emphasises the role of the language as the subject of the story and discuses the following narratological questions: the relationship between diegesis and mimesis, the issues of focalization and the narrator’s position, the relationship between the empirical narrator and the fictional narrator, the relationship between the fictional and non-fictional elements of the story and between monological and dialogical parts of the discourse.

Keywords

narratology; Komisa speech; narrator; lexis

Hrčak ID:

38331

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38331

Publication date:

17.10.2007.

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