The poetry of place in Iztok Osojnik and Aleš Debeljak

Jackson, Richard (author)

This paper is an exploration of place in the poetry and poetics of Iztok Osojnik and Aleš Debeljak, arguing that while Debeljak situates place in the space between poem and reader, Osojnik situates place within the self through the poem’s language. The result is a finite teleology for Debeljak and a provisional one for Osojnik. Debeljak’s poems look to recover a past and Osojnik’s to discover a future.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovenian literature, Slovenian poetry, Slovenian poets, Slovenian contemporary poetry, place
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 137-145
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136132
• UDC: 821.163.6-1.09
• DOI: 10.4312/Obdobja.40.137-145
• COBISS.SI-ID: 89600515
• Publication date in RUL: 13.04.2022

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Slovenska poezija
• Editors: Darja Pavlič
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete
• Year: 2021
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0542-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 83371267
• Collection title: Obdobja
• Collection numbering: 40
• Collection ISSN: 1408-211X

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Prispevek raziskuje prostor v poeziji in poetiki Iztoka Osojnika in Aleša Debeljaka ter trdi, da Debeljak prostor umešča v območje med pesmijo in bralcem, Osojnik pa ga prek jezika pesmi umešča v samega sebe. Rezultat tega je končna teleologija za Debeljaka in začasna za Osojnika. Debeljakove pesmi si prizadevajo obnoviti preteklost, Osojnikove pa odkriti prihodnost.

• Keywords: sodobna slovenska poezija, prostor