Original scientific paper

With semitone, semi-word on the semi-darkness of the suburb: on Krešimir Bagić’s poetry

Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković ; Institute of Slavonic Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Abstract

The title of Bagić’s collected poems published in 2006, U polutami predgrađa (On the semi-darkness of the suburb), places the book in a circle of „urban landscape poetry”, suggesting giving up on „translation” into poetry language of theoretical thinking on the rhizomatous letter structure and on the world-text, world-language. The paper problematizes these theses and shows the way in which Krešimir Bagić – despite the title – builds a home and a world out of words and introduces a reader not so much to an extralinguistic space, as to territory and language of suburban stories. Linguistic-spatial constructions (and deconstructions), internal and external landscapes are composed of different, often contradictory elements: real and imaginary, actual and textual.

Keywords

Croatian poetry; Krešimir Bagić; language and space

Hrčak ID:

174599

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174599

Publication date:

1.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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