Open AccessPOETICS OF TRAVELING IN ANTUN GUSTAV MATOŠ’S LITERARY OEUVRE / POETIKA PUTOVANJA U DJELU ANTUNA GUSTAVA MATOŠA
Author(s) -
Saša Šmulja
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.25.2018.9
Subject(s) - poetics , serbian , context (archaeology) , order (exchange) , character (mathematics) , literature , sociology , history , art history , art , poetry , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , archaeology , finance , mathematics , economics
This paper deals with the fact that Matoš spent nearly half ofhis creative life in exile, in numerous, often anxious encounters withthe new life conditions in foreign countries and cultures, encounterswith nuances of “different” in literatures and cultures from whichMatoš derived his knowledge and experience. Regarding the fact thatMatoš often wrote observing and percieving the other with the eyes ofan “eternal stranger”, emigrant and newcomer, flâneur and traveler,we decided to apply the imagological approach to the aspects ofMatoš’s interaction with French, Italian and Serbian cultures,respectively. We were determined to conduct this research from theperspective of comparative imagology, dealing with the delicate“consequences” of the Matoš’s life abroad, primarily in the context ofaforementioned cultures that determined him artistically andintellectually. Accordingly, in order to investigate these importantaspects of Matoš’s character and work thoroughly (primarily histravelogues and feuilletons), we applied adequate theoretical andcritical apparatus in an effort to point out the basic features of histravelogue poetics, or in a broader sense poetics of traveling.