The author deals with a number of theoretical, historical and comparative issues of the prose poem which can be determined as a dual generic type, as it relates to poetry and narrative prose. For its self-constitution as an autonomous genre in the transformed space of the new, modernist generic system the programmatic and creative practice of French symbolistic authors is of particular importance, especially Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Hyusmans and the surrealistic poet Max Jacob. In the models of the prose poem in the Slovene literature from the 1890s onwards, in the works by Kersnik and Funtek, there are two main types of the genre. The first, older one, is established through the devices of description and anecdotal narration or the lyrical-confessional pattern (Pregelj, Jarc, Kmet, Lovrenčič). The second employs a formal and experimental type of writing which is marked by its non-mimetical nature (Kosovel, Grum, Podbevšek, Kocbek). Thus it is possible to talk about the disintegration of the conventions within the genre itself, that affects the reader and the reception of the text with a varity of aesthetical resources.
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