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Interdiskurzivnost u poeziji Irene Matijašević
Interdiscursivity in the Poetry of Irena Matijašević

Author(s): Ivan Šunjić
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Poetry, Semantics, Croatian Literature, Stylistics
Published by: P.E.N. Centar Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: interdiscursivity; poetic discourse of Irena Matijašević; discourse stylistics; discourse semiotics; interpretation; analysis;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses and interprets the poetic work of Irena Matijašević from the points of discourse stylistics and discourse semiotics. The four published collections by this contemporary author are here read using the concept of interdiscursivity. The interpretative analytic insight into this poetic opus is based on the thesis on interdiscursivity as fundamental property of the author’s poetics and style. After a short introduction on interdiscursivity as theoretically and stylistically postulated category, this paper abstracts analytically different discursive units and interpretations of their stylistic and semantic implications inside a particular poem, cycle, collection, and the work as a whole. The paper aims to offer a closer reading of Matijašević’s poetic work with the help of the methodological framework in question because, so far, readings of her work have been reduced only to insights into individual collections provided by critiques and reviews. Besides that, the above mentioned theoretical and methodological step tends to represent the beginning of a more systematic approach to the poetics and style of Matijašević’s poetry.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 89-90
  • Page Range: 43-84
  • Page Count: 42
  • Language: Bosnian