КЊИЖЕВНОСТ И ЕТНОЛОГИЈА – ИНТЕРДИСЦИПЛИНАРНЕ ВЕЗЕ НА ПРИМЕРИМА РЕАЛИСТИЧКИХ ПИСАЦА
LITERATURE AND ETHNOLOGY – INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS IN EXAMPLES OF REALISTIC WRITERS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is going to apply interdisciplinary approach trying to emphasize the interpretative abilities of ethnological reading of a literary text. Both literary text and ethnological descriptions are analyzed in the light of narratology, being examined as different rhetorical modes. In the spirit of cognitive narratology, narrative is defined as the matrix of communication, expressive form which is ‘’sine qua non’’ of the community life (‘’simply there, as the life itself’’ as Barthes would state). The paper consists of diachronic survey and analytical approach, offering an insight in historical links between the two disciplines – Ethnology and Theory of Literature. Accordingly, attention is going to be paid to the intersection of ethno – psychological and literary discourse, the analysis of so called Balkan psychological type (Jovan Cvijic’s typology), as well as to anthropo-geographic motivation specific for realistic writers (examples are regionalism of Simo Matavuljor Stevan Sremac, and specific type of highlander character in Serbian literature related to the mountain range of Dinara). Additionally, we are going to focus on methods of structuralism engaged in the study of both literary and ethnological narratives, as well as on importance of imagology in the interdisciplinary analysis of The Otherness. The paper itself is a presentation of an elective course Literature and Ethnology which is being held at Department of Serbian Literature and South Slavic Literatures, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Therefore, we would appreciate if participants in the conference take part in discussion on this subject, as we truly believe that will improve and open new ways for Romanian-Serbian ethno-literary relations.

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