Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2023
Abstract
In this study I explore the poetry of Vida Jeraj (Franica Vovk, 1875-1932). The story of the talented poet is the tragic story of a female writer of the small Slovene patriarchal society making her way through life, balancing writing, love, and living at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of twentieth century in the shadow of great historical and political changes in Central Europe: the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy, the First World War, and the beginning of the new Yugoslavia, of which Slovenia was a part after the end of the war.
In her lyrical discourse I will focus on intimacy in connection with time and space.