Reprezentacije ljubezni in erotike v poeziji Kristine Šuler

This article discusses the love poetry of Kristina Šuler (a.k.a. Schuller, 1866–1959), one of the most prominent Slovenian female lyrical poets, who published her works in the magazine Slovenka. Šuler wrote and published her poems at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in the context of the Slovenian modernist movement and the »Habsburg myth« The article thematically analyzes her love poems. She published the greatest number of love poems among the female authors of Slovenka, indicating a shift toward the representation of intimacy. In her early period, Šuler sought language and images to express the love felt by the autobiographical lyrical subject. In her poetics she gradually made a major shift from realism and formalism to impressionism. The article focuses on new images of heterosexual love in her lyrical poems and on images related to the typical romantic dialog between the female lyrical subject and a man. It analyzes the connection between the category of time and the representation of natural themes and attributes of the landscape. In addition, it focuses on new sensibility during the period of identity crisis and new valuation of time.