Dijakronijski aspekti pjesničkog diskurza Josipa Severa
The Diachronic Aspects of Josip Sever’s Poetic Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The consolidation of the so-called narrative style in Croatian poetry as the poetic standard of the twentieth century paved the way for numerous stylistic variations and deliberate messages in poetic practice. One of the innovative features is the reinterpretation of the prosodic tradition within the framework of postmodernist writing as practised by Josip Sever. Sever’s intervention has its diachronic basis in Matoš’s return to aestheticism (unlike Janko Polić Kamov’s negation), in Krleža’s criticism of Modernism, not from the position of aesthetic arbitrariness but from the aspect of total culture, it is history. However, Sever carnevalizes history and foregrounds the ludic inconsistency of the poetic subject. A number of poetic procedures make Sever’s poetry a threshold in its own right between the reception of the historic avantgarde in Croatian poetry and an opening to the experience of Postmodernism.

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