Open AccessThe image of Venice in The Mountain Wreath: Some imagological observations
Author(s) -
Najda Ivanova
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1502015i
Subject(s) - poetry , literature , linguistics , object (grammar) , politics , selection (genetic algorithm) , history , sociology , philosophy , art , computer science , law , political science , artificial intelligence
Draško’s story about his trip to Venice represented in the poem The Mountain Wreath (1847), written by Peter Petrović Njegoš, is an object of many interpretations in theoretical Njegoš studies as well as in the educational, popular science, the media, political and many other types of discourse. In this article, we aim at providing a linguo-imagological analysis of the fragment. The mechanisms of shaping and the semantic structure of the hetero-stereotypes about Venice and the Venetians are examined. In addition, both the influence of the author’s intention and that of the socio-cultural discourse regarding the creation of the poem on the way of selection and the use of expressive means are examined