Expressiveness in Marina Vidaić’s Poetry

Abstract

The paper deals with one of the basic stylistic categories, namely expressiveness. It is discussed from the aspect of language (Jakobson), and ambiguities are presented during the transition to literature (Lešić, Wales). Emphasizing and elaborating on one of the existing concepts of expressive stylistics in the literary field (Plett), we present the possibility of analyzing expressiveness in the poetry of contemporary Croatian poet Martina Vidaić, which carries a large part of its emotional and semantic layer. Determining the poetics of Martina Vidaić as primarily confessional, we take the categories of her theoretical-stylistic elaboration (Lemac) and analyze expressiveness according to these parameters, bringing her into contact with poetic and stylistic forces. The theoretical and methodological framework of our considerations consists of theoretical stylistics, literary stylistics, poetics, and stylistic criticism.