%0 Journal Article
%T Moja zemja ¨C Pod U£¿kun: the literary motif and or symbol of the U£¿ka Mountain in the chakavian poetry of Drago Gervais
%A Jurdana
%A Vjekoslava
%J -
%D 2019
%X Sa£¿etak Drago Gervais (Opatija, 18 April 1904 ¨C Se£¿ana, 1 July 1957) was a poet, prose writer, dramatist, essayist, feuilltonist, historian, culture and social professional, but above all, a patriot. His departure from Opatija, from his native Liburnia, the never-forgotten native region, remained as an eternal wound on his poetic heart. From his exile position, he started writing his Chakavian verses, which are considered anthological in Croatian literature. Gervais¡¯s paradigmatic poem is Moja zemja (My Country), which was, in the original version (£¿akavski stihovi - Chakavian Verses), 1929), published in eight parts. The fifth part later gained its independence under the title Pod U£¿kun (Beneath the U£¿ka), which became accepted. This paper is an analysis of the integral original eight-part version of the poem and interprets its thematic, motivic, conceptual and symbolic elements which are, as the paper shows, fundamentally linked to the poetic and ethical topos of U£¿ka at multiple levels
%K Drago Gervais
%K Chakavian poetry
%K U£¿ka
%K motif
%K symbol
%U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=337403