Abstract
Extra-textual relations in the poetry of Breyten Breytenbach are regarded as having the same importance as intra-textual relations. Focusing on extra-textual relations, references to “mirror” show non-literary extra-textual relations to the “mirror mind” of Buddhism. This relation is constituted by literary extra-textual relations between four analysed poems. All other references to “mirror” in the oeuvre are listed for comparison in this framework. The Buddhist principle of unity underlying this poetry becomes a textual strategy. The reader is guided towards a reading process in which no single poem is to be considered as a bearer of the full meaning. Interrelated with all other poems in the oeuvre, each single poem is only an aspect, a flowing image, in the “mirror mind” of this poetry.
Highlights
Extra-textual relations in the poetry of Breyten Breytenbach are regarded as having the same importance as intra-textual relations
T he reader is guided towards a reading process in which no single poem is to be considered as a bearer of the full meaning
Die anormalisering in diepoesie van Breyten Breytenbach
Summary
In ’n insiggewende referaat toon Ina G rabe aan hoe die intratekstuele relasies in ’n gedig van Dylan Thomas vir die leser ekstratekstueel gem anifesteer word (G rabe, 1984:166). Vir haar berus “die leser se begrip van die poësie-teks nietemin . Veral op ’n noukeurige analise en interpretasie van die relevante intratekstuele relasies binne ’n gedig” (G rabe, 1984:138). Alhoewel G rabe se laaste stelling geregverdig word deur haar bespreking van die Thom as-teks, is dit ook waar dat dit moeilik is om spesifieke aspekte van ’n spesifieke digter se poësie onder algemene teorieë tuis te bring. In die poësie van Breytenbach spesifiek, want dit is al waartoe hierdie bespreking beperk is, is dit myns insiens essensieel om ’n gelykwaardige plek aan ekstratekstuele relasies toe te ken
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