Original scientific paper
Misogyny, misandry, satire : notes on three poems from the old Croatian literature
Lahorka Plejić Poje
; Department of Croatian language and literature, Faculty of humanities and social sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper studies three satirical poems: two of them attack women from the position of a male teller and in the third, men are attacked through a female voice. The attack strategies in all three are being analysed as well as their inner textual credibility. The poems are attempted to be judged with regard to the deep-rooted definitions of a satire, showing that the deep-rooted definitions are questionable and that they do not give answers to questions raised by satirical texts. In other words, poems against women neither want nor can point to female vices and sins, contributing in that way to their elimination. In this sense, the poem against men seems more persuasive, because it is more concrete, refers to the particular and is less generalizing. The possibilities of different readings of Anka Satira are also marginally related.
Keywords
satire; misogyny; Marulić; Menčetić; “Ženska ljubav” ("Women love")
Hrčak ID:
174661
URI
Publication date:
17.4.2008.
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