Grga Rupčić’s Native Poetics

Abstract

The work establishes the native poetics of one of the most famous contemporary poets from Gospić – Grga Rupčić. In addition to the biographical and autobiographical context of the Lika – Rastoka area, the life and work of Grga Rupčić is approached in an overview and analytical manner, taking into account the diversity of the author’s literary (poetry and prose) and non-fiction oeuvre. The stylistic analysis of Rupčić’s poetry, characterized by an emotional and reflective lyrical sensibility, is a sign of an educational call, native landscape, and people. The author’s prose literary-publicistic oeuvre, in which he talks about Lika’s social and cultural reality, has a chronicle character and a satirical-humorous intonation. The author’s literary and critical work is aimed at writers of native land. Grga Rupčić’s poetic, poetical and prose, essayistic and literary criticism, as well as chronicle work is a sign of the cultural, historical, educational and literary imaginary of his native area, and his topoanalysis is a sign of poeticizing the native land. The native cultured lyrical subject, identical to the author, marked by nostalgia, memories and recollections, in his entire rich oeuvre inscribed human value in the beloved space, translating its reality into a poetic-mythical dimension, leaving an indelible mark in the literary and cultural life of Lika and Gospić.