Pustupci u prikazivanju djeda Neumijke
Methods in the Portrayal of Grandfather Neumijko

Summary/Abstract: One of the most vital and interesting characters in the Croatian children's literature is that of grandfather Neumijko. The character was created and brought to life from the depths of mythology by lvana Brlić-Mažuranić in her story Lutonjica Toporko i devet župančića, and was given fresh features by the writer Truda Stamać in her collection of short stories Kapi (Drops). Grandfather Neumijko has now become a complex and many-layered character, sometimes showing conflicting features. This ambivalence in the Brlić-Mažuranić's story has been expressed especially at the macro-stylistic level. Truda Stamać describes grandfather's ambiguity in a shorter literary form, in a "mini-story" by means of some linguistic categories at the micro-stylistic level. The author of the paper concludes that this procedure affects the syntax so that Stamać's narrative expression is characterised by a specific, rich, reductionary and extentionary sentence rhythm.

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