Hrvatske pjesničke prakse od 2000. do 2010.

Davor Šalat's analytical discourse skilfully combines procedures, methods and concepts of literary criticism, stylistics, sociology and philosophy of literature. A layered and reliable hermeneutic presentation of Croatian poetry in the first decade of the 21st century is based on such a "polyperspective" discourse. Šalat's presentation of the topic varies between principled, finely measured reflections on the literary and cultural context and literary life on the one hand, and appropriate and lucid readings of carefully selected texts-examples from thematic works on the other. Sovereignly moving between details and global features, individual figures and poetic or rhetorical constants, combining the procedures and insights of textual analysis, stylistic criticism and philosophical-sociological problematization of literature, the author built a complex hermeneutic apparatus with which he appropriately observed and interpreted poetic shifts, rhetorical , stylistic and cognitive changes in the works of ten contemporary poets. The book enriches the Croatian science of literature and the interpretation of selected poetic discourses with refined stylistic readings and theoretically based insights.

Krešimir Bagić