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• Title:
  “Over the naked skin, the vale of ice” – drawing boundaries in The Pit by Ivan Goran Kovačić
• Creator:
  Drenjančević, Ivana
• Description:
  This article takes an analytical look at the narrative poem The Pit (1944) by Ivan Goran Kovačić. In Kovačić’s work, the question of borders is important on many levels: The Pit belongs to the genre of the narrative poem, a genre on the border between the lyric and epic; it is written in sesta rima, a form in which rhyme emphasises the boundaries between verses; critics have also noted a partition between the first nine cantos and the tenth canto, as well as a distinct opposition between the executioner and the victims, the boundary between the individual statement of the narrator and the suffering collective. The analysis attempts to show that the narrator is more concerned with drawing the boundary between himself and the other victims than with the contradiction between himself and the executioner. It seems important to him to distinguish himself from them, which leads me to the conclusion that the narrator draws boundaries in order to escape the brutal collectivisation of death.;
  U ovom se radu analitički pristupa poemi Jama (1944) Ivana Gorana Kovačića. U tom je Kovačićevu djelu pitanje granice važno na više razina: Jama pripada žanru poeme, koji je na granici između lirskog i epskog, pisana je sesta rimom, što znači da se rimom označuju i naglašuju granice među stihovima, kritika je uočila i naglašenu granicu između prvih devet pjevanja i desetog pjevanja kao i granicu između krvnika i žrtava te granicu između individualnoga iskaza slijepoga pripovjedača i skoro nijemoga kolektiva koji stradava. U radu se analizom nastoji pokazati kako je, mnogo više nego li oprekom između sebe i krvnika, pripovjedač zaokupljen pomnim iscrtavanjem granice između sebe i drugih žrtava. Iako svoje supatnike opisuje s empatijom, čini se kako je pripovjedaču ipak važno da se od njih razlikuje, da se izdvoji iz kolektiva pa se u radu predlaže zaključak da pripovjedač Jame pomno iscrtava granice između sebe i drugih kako bi umaknuo brutalnoj kolektivizaciji smrti.
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  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Ivana Drenjančević
• Date:
  2025.07.24
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Croatian
• Source:
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 28 (2025): Boundaries in literature – setting, erasing and transgressing; 99-117;
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 28 (2025): Granice w literaturze – wyznaczanie, zacieranie i przekraczanie; 99-117;
  2450-2731;
  2084-3011
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/49060/39841
• Subject:
  Ivan Goran Kovačić;
  The Pit;
  boundaries;
  individuality;
  collectivity;
  Jama;
  granice;
  individualnost;
  kolektiv
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/49060
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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