The paper develops around the notion of motherhood in Doris Lessing’s seminal novel The Golden Notebook. Starting from the premise of Lessing’s persistent refusal of the label of feminist writer, but ...theoretically sustained through an elaboration of her stance on the novel’s readership, the main argument of the paper emphasises Lessing’s (semantic) accordance with the feminist motherhood theory of the early sixties. In addition, through the notion of motherhood, the article aims to provide an account respectful towards Lessing’s request for a complex and coherent reading of her work.
U članku se namjeravaju istražiti osnovne odlike oblikovanja alegorijske ženske personifikacije u Barakovićevu spjevu Vila Slovinka (1614). To prije svega podrazumijeva nosivi i naslovni ženski lik ...koji izrasta iz duge alegorijske tradicije personificiranja apstraktnih sadržaja u ženskome obličju koja kanonski oblik zadobiva u Boetijevoj Utjesi filozofije, Alanovu Plaču prirode ili pak Danteovu kanonskome epskome spjevu, redom alegorijskim ostvarenjima koja će uspostaviti model alegorijske ženske personifikacije koja muškoga protagonista usmjerava i vodi na putu prema spoznaji. Tako zamišljena analiza razvijala bi se nadalje u dosluhu sa suvremenim teorijskim promišljanjima rodne dimenzije personifikacije, osobito onima što ih je ostavio jedan od najznačajnijih suvremenih teoretičara personifikacije James T. Paxson (1998), koncipiravši personifikaciju kao figuru za koju je karakteristična radikalna suspenzija svih fiksno određenih onotoloških kategorija pa tako i kategorija žensko/muško.
The intent of this paper is to examine the basic features that characterise the manners in which the personified female characters are formed in Baraković ‘s poem Vila Slovinka (1614). This primarily implies a leading and titular female character emerging from a long allegorical tradition of personifying abstract content in a feminine form which gains its canonical form in Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, Alain’s The Plaint of Nature or Dante’s canonical epic poem, all of them allegorical works which will establish the model of allegorical female personification which directs and guides the male protagonist along the path to cognition. Thus conceived analysis would be further developed in concordance with contemporary theoretical reflections on the gendered dimension of personification, particularly those bequeathed to us by one of the most significant contemporary theoreticians of personification, James T. Paxson’s (1998), by conceiving it as a figure characterised by radical suspension of all fixedly defined ontological categories.
U radu se analizira konstrukcija majčinstva u Kumičićevu romanu Olga i Lina. Naglasak je na likovima majki koje su u romanu oblikovane kao “dobra”, odnosno “loša” majka. Osnovnim istraživačkim ...pitanjima rada istražuje se što je to što Kumičićevu “dobru” majku čini “dobrom”, a koje su osobine njegove “loše” majke. Ispituje se je li riječ o standardnim modelima majčinstva ili o autorovu otklonu od društvenih i literarnih konvencija te zbog čega se majčinstvo pojavljuje kao važna tema u Kumičićevu romanu.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the textualization of motherhood in Eugen Kumičić’s novel Olga i Lina Olga and Lina. The emphasis is on the characters of mothers portrayed in the novel as “good” mothers and “bad” mothers. The paper addresses two main research questions. The first refers to what characterizes Kumičić’s “good” mother as “good” as well as the features of his “bad” mothers. Secondly, we look into whether the author uses standard (literary) models of motherhood or whether he departs from social and literary conventions, and why motherhood appears as an essential topic in Kumičić’s novel.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the textualization of motherhood in Eugen Kumičić’s novel Olga i Lina Olga and Lina. The emphasis is on the characters of mothers portrayed in the novel as “good” ...mothers and “bad” mothers. The paper addresses two main research questions. The first refers to what characterizes Kumičić’s “good” mother as “good” as well as the features of his “bad” mothers. Secondly, we look into whether the author uses standard (literary) models of motherhood or whether he departs from social and literary conventions, and why motherhood appears as an essential topic in Kumičić’s novel.
Marulić’s moral and theological work De institutione bene uiuendi per exempla sanctorum (1506) is a collection of saints’ lives and inspiring episodes from the Holy Scripture which have been ...narratively transformed into the literary form of an exemplum. Set out to provide spiritual edification by means of moral examples, De institutione particularly addresses ascetic female readers (virgins and widows). In doing so, Marulić’s practical moral narrative does not develop a systematic conceptualisation of virginity, while in Euangelistarium (1516), a moral and theological work complementary to De institutione, virginity is elaborated upon extensively, mostly according to 1 Corinthians 7 and Jerome’s exegesis on virginity. Based on these notions, this article focuses on the discourse of virginity in Marulić’s writings. More specifically, the article examines Marulić’s exemplification of female hagiography in De institutione with particular regard to the phenomenon of female ascetic virility which was characteristic for early types of female sanctity.
Polazeći od suvremene feminističke književnohistoriografske i historiografske problematizacije djevičanstva, u članku se analizira Marulićev diskurs o djevičanstvu u moralnoteološkim spisima ...Institucija (1506) i Evanđelistar (1516). Analizom se navedenih djela nastoji razabrati i razumjeti način kojim se djevičanstvo kao složena i imanentno proturječna konstrukcija u Marulićevim tekstovima uspostavljala iznova obnavljajući svoja ishodišna utemeljenja, dok se naglasak postavlja na fenomen ženske asketske virilnosti, osobito karakterističan za rane tipove ženske svetosti koji prevladavaju u Instituciji.
Marulić’s moral and theological work De institutione bene uiuendi per exempla sanctorum (1506) is a collection of saints’ lives and inspiring episodes from the Holy Scripture which have been narratively transformed into the literary form of an exemplum. Set out to provide spiritual edification by means of moral examples, De institutione particularly addresses ascetic female readers (virgins and widows). In doing so, Marulić’s practical moral narrative does not develop a systematic conceptualisation of virginity, while in Euangelistarium (1516), a moral and theological work complementary to De institutione , virginity is elaborated upon extensively, mostly according to 1 Corinthians 7 and Jerome’s exegesis on virginity. Based on these notions, this article focuses on the discourse of virginity in Marulić’s writings. More specifically, the article examines Marulić’s exemplification of female hagiography in De institutione with particular regard to the phenomenon of female ascetic virility which was characteristic for early types of female sanctity.
U članku se analizira srednjovjekovno hrvatskolatiničko prikazanje Muka svete Margarite. Članak je strukturiran dvodijelno: u prvome dijelu članka tematizira se žanrovska struktura hagiografskih ...legendi o ranokršćanskim djevicama – mučenicama te ranokršćanska konceptualizacija fenomena mučeništva i djevičanstva, dok se u drugome dijelu članka na tome tragu analizira fenomen herojskoga ženskog djevičanstva.
Polazeći od suvremene književnohistoriografske i historiografske problematizacije djevičanstva kao religijskog i općekulturnog fenomena predmodernog razdoblja zapadne kulture, u članku se analizira ...religijski diskurs o djevičanstvu u pastoralnoj drami Istorija od Dijane Mavra Vetranovića. Cilj je članka pokazati u kojoj se mjeri religijsko djevičanstvo može pokazati važnim za razumijevanje i interpretativno tumačenje tog teksta.
This paper analyzes the Croatian medieval drama The Passion of the Saint Margarita. The first part of the paper deals with the genre structure of virgin martyrs legends, while the focus is on the ...early Christian conceptualization of the phenomenon of martyrdom and virginity. Proceeding from the above, the second part of this paper analyzes the phenomenon of women’s heroic virginity in The Passion of the Saint Margarita.
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