Metaforička konceptualizacija tjelesnosti patnje u pjesništvu Nade Grubišić
Metaphoric conceptualisation of corporal suffering in Nada Grubišić’s poetry

Summary/Abstract: Based on Nada Grubišić’s collection of poetry Djevojčica iz porječja (The Girl from the River Basin), the paper focuses on the conceptual metaphor SUFFERING IS SHARPNESS to argue that contemporary poetic expression recontextualizes the language of emotions and deepens the reader’s emotional experience. Nada Grubišić constructs suffering by connecting experiences that are conventionally associated with anger and/or irritability. The context in her poetry allows suffering to be perceived as rendering the subject passive based on the general and culturally standardised attitude, but it is also possible to interpret suffering as enabling the subject’s agency.

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