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NARRATOLOGICAL, SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL, STYLISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE THREE ORAL STORIES FROM THE VILLAGE OF OKLJUCINE ON THE ISLAND OF V

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


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Abstract

The author recorded in Komiza three authentic stories from an abandoned village Okjucina on the north shore of the island of Vis. These three stories are told by two storytellers who do not know each other's story/stories. There is an astonishing connection between these stories which the cat motif ties into one story with a point of the narrative at the end of the third story.
This accidental narrative structure was a challenge to the author who opted for three types of interpretation: narratological, socioanthropological and stylistic interpretation. The author is interested in the narrative structure of the stories, the position of the storyteller, diegetic and mimetic level of narration. In addition, his interpretation also includes a deeper socioanthropological structure of the stories which as a transdiegetic narrative whole witness the appearance and disappearance of a small insular world. The author notices the tension between two opposing forces: the centripetal, which gathers and concetrates the human community, and the centrifugal which disperses it. These two forces are symbolically tied to the motif of a rooster as a solar principle – the symbol or Eros, and the motif of a cat which is a symbol of the underground, dark, death: Thanatos.
In the stylistic approach to interpretation the author speaks about the specificity of the dialectal stylistics with regard to the diachronic perspective of the lingustic changes of the organic idiom and with regard to the context of the standard language and especially with regard to the oral character of the interpreted stories which appear in the medium of the written word.

Keywords

oral literature; Komiža; stylistics; narratology; anthropology

Hrčak ID:

52862

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/52862

Publication date:

27.11.2009.

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