Heterogeneity of Styles and Diversity of Media Codes in Literary Critics Texts in Goran Rem’s "Zadovoljština u tekstu"

Abstract

The paper analyzes the book of literary critics texts Zadovoljština u tekstu (1989) by Goran Rem which is approached from the traditional typology of functional styles. It examines the existence of media codes and their interweaving in which literary critics texts as well as books in its entirety, imitate intermediate character. The paper provides an overview of the represented functional styles (scientific, essayistic, literary-artistic, conversational, journalistic and publicistic) and variants of the media subject which are results of experience of critic subject and codes of culture (especially media and rock culture) that the subject inscribes into the reading and interpretation of literary templates. The paper shows functional styles heterogeneity of literary critics texts in Zadovoljština u tekstu and the existence of four variants of the media subject. From this it is to conclude that the book is a hybrid text called postcritic whose hybridity suggests postmodern culture affiliation.