ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE REPRESENTATION OF CHARLES SIMIC AS A POET, ESSAYIST AND TRANSLATOR IN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE CURRICULA
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2024.16.26Keywords:
poetry, philosophy, translation, intertextuality, language and literature curricula, teachingAbstract
The paper explores the main motifs, symbols and layers of ideas in Charles Simic’s literary work. Simic’s poetry, essays and translation work are analyzed in the first part of this paper. In essayistic and poeticized prose, special attention is paid to this author’s ideas about language, literary translation, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, truth, the relationship between the world and language, language and truth, truth and imagination. The second part of the paper explores the possibilities of representing his work in languages and literature curricula, both through regular and additional classes and extracurricular activities. Charles Simic’s work is an excellent starting point for various forms of project-based learning, which includes intradisciplinary (literature – language) and interdisciplinary correlation (English and Serbian language, literature and philosophy, literature and sociology, etc.) Rich intertextuality, reflected in Simic’s literature (to mention only some of the influential names the author references, including Descartes, Wittgenstein, Jasper Johns and Kant among others), opens up possibilities for connection with many subject areas. Charles Simic, as an author who for many years “thought and wrote in a language spoken with an accent” (as he himself described his own language situation), is an interesting example of the challenges and creative possibilities provided by bilingualism as a phenomenon in the modern world.
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