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https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.54.1.2
Intertextuality between Sida Košutić’s Drama “At Daybreak” and Song of Songs as the Prototext
Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7250-6383
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za kroatistiku, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The drama “K Svitanju” (“At Daybreak”), 1927, is one of the first published texts of a long-time ignored Croatian writer Sida Košutić (1902-1965). It used to be classified as a symbolist drama or a dialogical poetic text, but a more systematic analysis has never been carried out, as critics have mostly dealt with her novels and lyrical poems, as dominant in her works. The implied theme of the drama is a conflict between father and daughter (with the elements of recording the main protagonist’s traumatic bodily experience), which the writer will keep reinterpreting in different genres through all her further literary creation, connecting it with the mysticism of suffering and sacrifice in the New Testament key, which will be the core of the ontological construct in her texts. Because of the marked symbolization and allegorization of the drama discourse and also the inclusion of a fantastic mode, the text was somewhat hermetic
to that–time audience; but a closer reading reveals correlations to European classics (Tagore, Sophocles, Shakespeare). However, the central part of this research will be directed to the dominant elements (thematic-motive, in symbolic imagery and in the text structure) which point to the biblical Song of Songs as a possible prototext. The correlation between the main themes of the drama and the themes of the prototext will be examined and interpreted in accordance with the ontological construct of a mystical struggle between light and darkness, good and evil in certain human destinies and in the world, which Sida Košutić was just about to start building with this early literary text. The aim of the research is to point at the drama of Sida Košutić as a quotation, immanent dialogue text in relation to the prototext, which allows its integration into general developmental tendencies of Croatian drama literature of the first decades of the 20th century and shows that the drama part of Sida Košutić’s works, though small, can find its relevant place in the national canon.
Ključne riječi
Sida Košutić; Song of Songs; drama “At Daybreak”; prototext; intertextuality
Hrčak ID:
218222
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Datum izdavanja:
20.3.2019.
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