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Вампирот како дериват на балканската естетика
THE VAMPIRE AS DERIVATIVE OF THE BALKAN AESTHETICS

Author(s): Nikolinka Nolevska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Comparative Study of Literature, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: vampire; Balkans; chronology; Aesthetics; Balkan aesthetics; folklore; psychoanalysis;symbol; Slavko Janevski; Borislav Peric; Eros; Thanatos; ambivalence; Kant; art; history;

Summary/Abstract: Mythological idea of the vampire has gone through numerous modifications but its popularity continuously fades occupying time and space in history, means continuously reactualization in and with contemporary literature and culture. This mythical figure becomes a metaphorical representation of series of social and sociological, cultural, historical and psychological treatment of phenomena. Through these written lines we represent it as derivative of multidimensional and polyphonic Balkan aesthetics. Simultaneously, only we touch parts of threads of the rich philosophical discipline named Aesthetics and its networking in the fild of Art or vice versa, the art as distillate of aesthetics. So the figure of the vampire we are introducing as sublimate of series aesthetic categories, mostly through the prism of psychoanalyst and through the anthropological structures of the imaginary, comparing the same with the possible perceptions which posed constellations within the Balkan chronology.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 141-155
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Macedonian