STRAMBOTTI - ЉУБAВ KPO3 ПРОСТОР И BPEME
STRAMBOTTI — LOVE THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the principles of cyclicity or the ways of formation of cycles „Strambotti” in Ivan V. Lalic’s collection Pismo (Letter). The basic principles of integrative links in this cycle are to be found in genre uniqueness of ten poems of the same form of strambot, an old Italian literary kind of folk origin, which has always been dedicated to love topics. Lalic’s strambotti consist of ten poems with eight verses each, connected into one unique whole by the genre form, identity of titles and the formation of a circular structure found in the repetition of the first semi-verse of the first and the tenth poem. Moreover, the selection of ten poems is thought to be an ideal number of separate elements in a greater poetic whole, according to the poetic standpoints of E. A. Steriopoulou, I. V. Fomenko, J. Užarevic, G. Maiorino and other scientists, who dealt with the problem of the nature of a cycle, the principle of cyclization and the poetics of titles in poetry. The motives of love, time, space, the relation between the cosmic and the Christian understanding of love and the topic of the acceleration of time represent one of the most important integative factors in the ten poems in the cycle „Strambotti”. Semantic level of the cycle is one of the important factors in a cycle, because the idea of the presence of lovers from the phenomenal and the ordinary develops from the first to the tenth poem in which the metaphysics of spiritual closeness between the partners is developed. The cycle „Strambotti” is also viewed in a broader context of the collection Pismo (Letter), as well as Lalic’s other earlier cycles „Melisa” and „O delima ljubavi ili Vizantija” (On Works of Love or Byzantium).

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