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Personal Names and Curse Registering in Miljenko Jergović’s Short Stories Collection ,,Inšallah Madona, Inšallah”

Starting with basic postulates of semiotics, interesting possible interpretations of personal names in Miljenko Jergovic’s stories are revealed to us. Inside a mode of discourse presented as constant conflict and change in the representation of meaning, these names are to understood as stable carriers of meaning in which the important motif of the curse occurs. …