On new incarnations of allegory – psychomachia in psychoanalysis and contemporary literature (based on the novel {Lost Homeland} by Slobodan Novak) Cover Image

O nowych wcieleniach alegorii – psychomachia w psychoanalizie i współczesnej literaturze (wokół powieści Slobodana Novaka {Izgubljeni zavičaj})
On new incarnations of allegory – psychomachia in psychoanalysis and contemporary literature (based on the novel {Lost Homeland} by Slobodan Novak)

Author(s): Anna Boguska
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: alegoria; topos; melancholia; Slobodan Novak; współczesna literatura chorwacka; allegory; topos; melancholy; Slobodan Novak; contemporary Croatian literature

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to demonstrate innovativeness and usefulness of the theory of allegory proposed by Dorothy L. Sayers, the author of {The Writing and Reading of Allegory}. Sayers identifies allegory as a literary genre, presents it as a ‘being’ mentally close to psychomachia, and tries to use the idea of “soul-battle” in the field of analytic psychology. Her conception seems to be fertile when interpreting {Lost Homeland} by Slobodan Novak.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6 (9)
  • Page Range: 187-196
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish