Kulturološke ikone i demistifikacija mita o izvanrednom slovenskom svetu na primeru proze Miodraga Bulatovića
Cultural Icons and the Demistification of Myth about an Extraordinary Slovenian world on the example of the Prose of Miodrag Bulatovic

Summary/Abstract: The article presents - in an artistic image theory’s context - a question of modification of the icon of Christ and vampire Dracula which is typical for the prose of Miodrag Bulatović. The subject of the analysis is the way cultural icons such as Christ and vampire are used to refer to common consciousness of the readers. This becomes an element of the game between the text of the novel and the picture existing in the reader’s minds. It is also the game between the symbolism created by the New Testament, Catechism and Apocrypha (and their visualization) as well as the individual symbolism of the novel. This change applies to a new cultural discourse (i.e. post-colonial critics), because these two icons are symbols of Slavic messianism and Slavic fate in Europe after the Second World War.

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