"TODAY ISN’T LIKE IT USED TO BE”: DIALECT POETRY BY THE KOSTEL POET IVAN LISAC
Keywords:
Kostel dialect, Ivan Lisac, dialect poetry, versology, dialect rhyme.Abstract
This paper analyses the dialect poetry collection Dregda va
Kostele by the poet Ivan Lisac, written in the Kostel dialect of the Lower
Carniolan dialect group. The poems are examined from thematic–motivic
and versological perspectives, with particular attention devoted to the
linguistic analysis of dialectal features and to the analysis of dialect
rhyme, i.e., rhyme shaped by specific dialectal characteristics.
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