Animals appear frequently in Shevchenko's poetry. Their significance and function has rarely been examined. This is a tentative to initiate such an analysis. The results show that Shevchenko almost always refers to folkish or religious tradition when mentioning owls and dogs as poetic ans symbolic figures.

Owls and dogs: lexical and symbolic semantics in the poetry of Taras Ševčenko / G. Brogi - In: Birthday Beasts’ Book : Where Human Roads Cross Animal Trails : Cultural Studies in Honour of Jerzy Axer / [a cura di] K. Marciniak. - Warszawa : Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”, 2011. - ISBN 978-83-928972-9-3. - pp. 31-39

Owls and dogs: lexical and symbolic semantics in the poetry of Taras Ševčenko

G. Brogi
Primo
2011

Abstract

Animals appear frequently in Shevchenko's poetry. Their significance and function has rarely been examined. This is a tentative to initiate such an analysis. The results show that Shevchenko almost always refers to folkish or religious tradition when mentioning owls and dogs as poetic ans symbolic figures.
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Settore L-LIN/21 - Slavistica
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Birthday Beasts’ Book : Where Human Roads Cross Animal Trails : Cultural Studies in Honour of Jerzy Axer
K. Marciniak
Warszawa
2011
31
39
978-83-928972-9-3
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G. Brogi
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Owls and dogs: lexical and symbolic semantics in the poetry of Taras Ševčenko / G. Brogi - In: Birthday Beasts’ Book : Where Human Roads Cross Animal Trails : Cultural Studies in Honour of Jerzy Axer / [a cura di] K. Marciniak. - Warszawa : Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”, 2011. - ISBN 978-83-928972-9-3. - pp. 31-39
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