ZVIERATÁ NEURČITÉ, ZVIERATÁ NEMÉ (PRÍRODNÉ MOTÍVY V TVORBE IVANA ŠTRPKU)

• Authors: Rácová Veronika , Hostová Ivana

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Animals indistinct, animals mute (Natural motifs in Ivan Štrpka’s poetry)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Drawing on ecocritical approaches, the article tackles natural motifs (especially animals) and pantheistic elements in Štrpka’s poetry (b. 1944). Methodologically, the authors draw on ecocritical approaches. With regards to Štrpka’s early collections, they look at the way the poet employed the figure of the parrot in his critique of rhetorical emptiness of the socialist society. In the poetry published in the 1980s, on the other hand, it pertains that Štrpka used natural and animal motifs to portray erotic relationships and urban atmosphere. From his later poetry, the article focuses on the poems that demonstrate the poet’s pantheistic worldview and shows that Štrpka’s writing also offers fruitful ground for ecocritical reading. The last section of the paper looks at the collections that Štrpka published after 1997. Nature is most often tied with civilizational contexts and dark, enigmatic, and sombre tones anticipating a catastrophic vision of the world prevail in these late poems. The article is thus both a contribution to the understanding of the development of the poet’s oeuvre and to the ways in which Slovak literature represents and constructs the animal and nature.

Keywords

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ANIMALS INDISTINCT; ANIMALS MUTE; IVAN ŠTRPKA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 174 - 195

Contributors

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Rácová Veronika

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7657-1473

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Hostová Ivana

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0901-3759

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2023.70.2.5