On the Literary (De)Mystification of Fate in Krležaʼs Work Gospoda Glembajevi and Selimovićʼs Novel Derviš i smrt as a Stylistic Manner of Plot Modelling Cover Image

O literarnoj (de)mistifikaciji sudbine u Krležinom djelu Gospoda Glembajevi i Selimovićevom romanu Derviš i smrt kao stilističkom postupku modeliranja zapleta
On the Literary (De)Mystification of Fate in Krležaʼs Work Gospoda Glembajevi and Selimovićʼs Novel Derviš i smrt as a Stylistic Manner of Plot Modelling

Author(s): Elmana Kadrić
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, Theory of Literature, Stylistics, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: Bosniak and Croatian literature; stylistics; mystification of literary text;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the literary (de)mystification of fate as a stylistic and plot device in two literary works, the novel Derviš i smrt written by Meša Selimović and Gospoda Glembajevi by Miroslav Krleža. In stylistic studies, hiding in ambiguity or the “game of affirmation and negation” are the most common ways to analyze phenomena of mystification at the level of literary text. When analyzing the concept of (de)mystification of fate in the drama script of Gospoda Glembejavi and in the novel Derviš i smrt at the very beginning, one encounters a problem of a methodological nature, such as genre differences at the level of dramatic discourse and the narrative structure of the novel in a broader sense. An additional difficulty is caused by the position of the authors in two different genres. The terms “mystification” and “mysticalisation” are distinguished in the paper, with the former being more general than the latter. The latter can also be reduced to an arbitrary semiotic process of encoding a text as a linguistic-stylistic process within the “mystification framework”.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 289-302
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian
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