ENALAGA VREMENA I NAČINA U PUTOPISNOM ŽANRU
THE ENALLAGE OF TENSE AND MODE IN TRAVELOGUE

Author(s): Bernisa Puriš
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Bosnian Literature, South Slavic Languages, Theory of Literature, Stylistics, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: stylistics; travelogue genre; enallage; synonymy; verb tenses (forms);
Summary/Abstract: Narrative sequence is the basic configural element (speech type) of the travelogue, on the basis of which its spatial and temporal arrangement is organized. The temporal arrangement of travel narration depends on the travel writer’s awareness of time and their subjective experience of time while writing about the journey. The writer, as a storyteller, has the freedom to choose a perspective, i.e. time point of view, to narrate the travel story to others. In this context, the question of intentionality in choosing verb forms to express travelogue temporality is important for stylistics. Regarding this question verb forms were studied as stylistic indicators of experiential, dynamic, rhythmic, and interdiscursive effects. These stylistic features make the travelogue genre specific and distinguishable from other genres with which it simultaneously exists. In doing so, it starts from the position that the issue of synonymy is very important in stylistic research. Since the subject of this paper is grammatical synonymy in the field of narrative temporality, the paper uses the concept of analogous time and mode, which in the system of stylistic / rhetorical figures means the expression of the same temporal relations in different verb tenses and modes. The research corpus is an anthological selection of 20th-century travelogues from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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