FLORAL-FAUNAL MOTIFS IN SVETOZAR ĆOROVIĆ’S LOVE STORIES
FLORAL-FAUNAL MOTIFS IN SVETOZAR ĆOROVIĆ’S LOVE STORIES

Summary/Abstract: The paper interprets the cycle of sketch stories by Svetozar Ćorović (1875–1919), Love Stories, from the narratological, structuralist and phenomenological aspects. Special attention is paid to floral and faunal motifs, which in different storytelling techniques may have the function of action setting and postponing, action starting, or hero portraying. The oriental chronotope of Ćorović's texts is seen both as a neo-romantic image of Ćorović's native Herzegovina and as a reflection of the mental states and, in general, the spiritual structure of the heroes existing in it. It is impossible to observe Bakhtinian idyllic chronotope separately from literary heroes since the floral and faunal worlds are presented in Ćorović's texts in unity with man.

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