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  • Dialogism in contemporary Slovenian poetry : aspects of external dialogization
    Balžalorsky Antić, Varja
    This paper presents an introduction to a broader project that deals with the articulation and configuration of subjects in contemporary Slovenian poetry. In the theoretical introduction, I provide a ... brief outline of the different aspects and forms of dialogism defined by Mikhail Bakhtin and put forward some conclusions reached after my re-reading of Bakhtin's thoughts on the monological nature of poetry. In the empirical section, I situate the chronological landmarks of the increased use of dialogism in recent Slovenian poetry and list the key authors involved. An introductory difference is made between the dialogic strategies that concern the structuration of the poetic discourse and its subjects on different levels of discourse (the speaking positions and the position of the enunciative subject) on the one hand, and representations of the decomposition of the "hard" conceptions of the (philosophical) category of the subject and/or the (sociological) category of the individual by using monological procedures in the structuration of the poem on the other. From the standpoint of poetic strategies, recent phenomena of dialogism on the level of the poem is often incorporated into the apparent monologic model of the subject configuration: the plurality of the poetic subject is introduced above all in the macro-system of the book and less in the micro-system of the poem or even the utterance. From the standpoint of the difference between external dialogismas the emergence of polyphony through the introduction of speaking characters, and internal dialogism where different strategies of the multiplication of point of views and voices occur within an apparently single, but decentered, speaking position, the former prevails in recent Slovenian poetry to the extent that we can speak of a strong current of polyphony. The remainder of the paper presents some examples of external dialogism that, according to Bakhtin's typology, would be considered the external type of the two-voiced word: the introduction of the persona poem and the dramatic monologue (especially prevalent in women's writing). It seems that the emergence of external dialogism is often a strategy used in the engaged thematic exploration of the intimate and social habitus that were kept in silence, while the very gesture of acquiring voice undertaken by until now "fragile" subjects - women, animals and even plants - is endowed with the symbolic value of subversive and transformative impulse.
    Vir: Forum for world literature studies. - ISSN 1949-8519 (Letn. 9, št. 1, marec 2017, str. 85-105)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2017
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 64130146

vir: Forum for world literature studies. - ISSN 1949-8519 (Letn. 9, št. 1, marec 2017, str. 85-105)

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