DIJALEKTIKA JEDENJA I GOVORENJA U DRAMAMA IVE BREŠANA

This paper investigates the contrast of eating and speaking from the theoretical standpoint of cognitive semantics, as it appears in plays written by Ivo Brešan. These examples are mediated by literary archetypes and conventional expressions based on the ideas are food and the mind is a container conceptual metaphors. They are also a specific way to problematize language in new folk plays. Starting from the classical cognitive view (Lakoff and Johnson 1999), and Deleuze’s (2015) dialectics of eating and speaking as a relationship between the inner and the outer, the paper articulates the duality of the cultural model of banquet: manifestations of the exchange of ideas, consciousness and spirituality, and manifestations of hedonism, inner, unconsciousness and physical. This duality in Brešan’s plays has a specific social-critical form.