”YOU CANNOT STEP TWICE INTO THE SAME TEXT” STYLISTIC AND THEMATIC STRATEGIES IN CHANGING THE WRITING OF ANKA ŽAGAR

Abstract

Th e paper determines and explicates the features of the latest book of poems by Anka Žagar Stvarnice, nemirna površina: spreading of recurrent motives, polyphonic architectonics, nonlinear realization of textuality, extending of grammar, language anxiety of poetic subject and metapoetical framing. It is ascertained that all of these strategies also characterize her previous work, but that they are subjected to subtle changes, which leads to the conclusion that the poetics of Anka Žagar is based on practice of repetition and mutual reinterpretation of each text and the whole of her works, and this claim is supported by overview of the critical readings.

Keywords

• poetical subject
• metapoetical framing
• reinterpretation
• recontextualisation