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Pjesništvo Petra Gudelja
Poetry of Petar Gudelj

Author(s): Sanja Jurić
Subject(s): Poetry, Croatian Literature, Existentialism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Društvo hrvatskih književnika Herceg-Bosne
Keywords: poetics; poetic features; history; Imota; region of Imotski; mythology; existentialist and expressionist elements; intertextuality (biblical reminiscences);

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the literary work of Petar Gudelj, a Croatian poet, editor, publisher and anthologist. The highlights are on essential stylistic, thematic and content features of his poetic opus, that exists as a separate, independent unit in the field of Croatian literature. The reader is also presented with his affiliation to the tradition of the people he originated from, a poetic universe set in a Mediterranean and karst landscape with all its characteristics and a poetic matrix that abounds in biblical and mythological reminiscences, historical and social events, existentialist and surrealist motives in literary creation.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 105-106
  • Page Range: 147-162
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian