Песник и његов тумач: књижевнотеоријски оквири студије Исидоре Секулић “Његошу књига дубоке оданости”
The Poet and his Interpreter: Literary Theoretical Frameworks of the Study by Isidora Sekulić “To Njegoš, a Book of Deep Devotion”

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes literary theoretical ideas embedded in the essay study by Isidora Sekulić entitled To Njegoš, A Book of Deep Devotion (1951). The author believes that the complex structure of these ideas is usually overlooked and that Isidora’s way of thinking is easily given over to its casual, poetic and essayistic nature, so he has tried to describe the width, comprehensiveness and foundation of her understanding of Njegoš and his creative opus in the context of literary theoretical ideas from the 19th and 20th century and beyond. Njegoš’s personality and opus were described by the great writer with a reliance on mystical religious ideas on the poet’s light nature (heychasm, Tabor light), as well as with the help of scientific methods of positivism and a biographical approach to literature (O. Sainte-Beuve, H. Tainne, V. Scherer, G. Lanson, P. Popović, J. Skerlić etc.), anthopogeography (J. Cvijić), etc. In the understanding of the poet’s nature Isidora relies on the genius theory (P. Holbach, I. Kant, B. Croce, etc.), the hero theory (T. Carlysle), the einfülung theory (J. Voklelt) and intuition (A. Bergson, B. Croce, etc.). Simultaneously she relies on mythical, archetypal and cultural insights (ranging from Vuk Karadžić and his understanding of Serbian culture, through J. Dučić and his mythical- poetic images of the world, to Northrop Frye, whose views on the closeness of literature and myth she shares). Isidora also demonstrates a great competence in literary critical, literary historical and comparativist analyses, which should be enriched by the syntheticity and playfulness of her essayistic discourse. Such a complex literary theoretical system, as well as a great writing skill, were the foundation of this essayistic study, which can be considered one of the most important studies in Serbian literary criticism.

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