Naslov
Idyll and fissure – Ivo Kalinski's poetological texts about children's poetry 1992-2003

Autori
Beck, Boris

Izvornik
Kaj : časopis za književnost, umjetnost i kulturu (0453-1116) 253 (2022), 3-4; 48-57

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Nativeness, Kajkavian, children, poetry, postmodernism

Sažetak
The topic of this paper is the analysis of a series of nine texts by Ivo Kalinski dedicated to the Dragutin Domjanić Festivity of Kajkavian Children's Poetry, which is held in Sveti Ivan Zelina. The articles were written each year from 1992 to 2003 and published in the book Anatomija kmice ili Umjetnina teksta – zanos i tjeskoba (2004). These are poetological articles in which Kalinski makes various observations about children's poetic texts, from which his starting points will be extracted in order to gain insight into his description and prescription of elementary school children's poetry. As the academic papers predicts, most of the poems thematize the closest environment of children, from family, house and yard, through the landscape, flora and fauna of the homeland, to the opening of themes of work and transience. In this way, nativeness is manifested as the core topos of children's poetry, significant because of the constitution of their identity, and excessively present because of their short and narrow life experience. But while the academic papers do not question children's thematization of the homeland from an aesthetic point of view, Kalinski writes about it and evaluates such works predominantly negatively due to their banality. He adds to the clichédness of the themes and the recycling of established poetic forms, which all results in superficiality. He considers teachers are responsible for that because they direct children towards general themes and stereotyped poetic forms. Furthermore, although other researchers of children's poetry do not see that there could be any steps beyond the horizon of nativeness, either in terms of content or form, Kalinski challenges the traditional approach here as well. Namely, in a series of examples, he points to the innovation of themes (social, emotional, spiritual) and to original poetic procedures, both in composition and in the lexic that deviates from the traditional props. Kalinski thus argues that in the more successful poems there is a split in both the poetic subject and the art, which leads the poetic creativity of young people in the direction of reflection, and points to a postmodern sensibility. In conclusion, in his texts, Kalinski provides a coherent and consistent poetics of Kajkavian children's poetry, which is based on nativeness, but conscious authors manage to establish an emotional connection between expression and content, which creates authentic texts that move off the beaten and uninteresting paths and affirm the authentic children's voice as a poetic and conceptual novelty.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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