SUBTEXT POETICS AS A LITERARY PROBLEM

Literary Allusion and Cultural Poetics in Vergil's Third "Eclogue"

Among the rich variety of approaches to the study of Vergil's arte allusiva one finds at least one, quite understandable, common element-namely, an overriding concern with the text itself as the dominant locus of meaning. This is true of Professor Conte's earlier work, at any rate, as well as of those who stress the philological Alexandrian attitude towards poetic composition,2 and even of the ...

Eros as a Constant in Nikolic's Poetics

The depth of the problems that Nikolic procedures in his movies arise from the specific subject matter that was unlike some other arts, above all literature, in this field of aesthetic expression in the unique cultural and conceptual framework of former Yugoslavia, less prevalent. Although it is difficult to talk about their polyphonic or polymorphic characteristics, the clear and dramatic func...

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Mashup Poetics as Pedagogical Practice

Combining the vocals and backing tracks of what are usually rather disparate songs—often cognitively dissonant if sonically consonant—mashups explicitly embody musical collisions. Although many offer simple delights in their whimsical recontextualizations, bringing together unlikely collaborators through some clash of genre, mood, or theme, others seem to suggest a more pointed cultural critiqu...

Introduction: The Fantastic as a Literary Genre