The Hermeneutic Meaning of Cognitive and Ethnolinguistic Analyses

Dragana Ratković, Pesnik i emigracija: konceptosfera doma i domovine u poeziji Aleksandra Petrova [The Poet and Emigration: The Conceptualisation of Home and Homeland in Aleksandar Petrov’s Poetry]. Belgrade: Institut za srpski jezik SANU, 2020, 260 pp.

Abstract

Dragana Ratković's scholarly monograph Poet and emigration: the conceptosphere of home and homeland in Aleksandar Petrov's poetry offers a different but purposeful approach to looking at the whole of a poetic oeuvre, i.e., the most critical moments of a poet's existence, at the same time separate and representative within the Slavic cultural space in the 20th century. Aleksandar Petrov's literary work was the subject of poetic, poetological and cultural research, the results of which were published in the anthologies Revolution and Culture in the Works of Aleksandar Petrov (2013) and Svet i vek. The literary work of Aleksandar Petrov (2017). As a devoted scholar of Petrov's literature and a collaborator in the second collection, Dragana Ratković focuses in her monograph on examining his poetic oeuvre, gathered in the book Peta strana sveta (2013), from the perspective of cognitive ethnolinguistics, i.e., on defining poetic strategies and procedures that form ethnocultural concepts in his poetry.