Књижевнокритичка, књижевноисторијска и естетичка мисао Милана Кашанина
Milan Kašanin’s Literary, Critical, Historical and Aesthetic Thought

Review of a Research

Summary/Abstract: This paper briefly presents main aspects of Milan Kašanin’s literary, critical, historical and aesthetic thought. The presentation was focused on Kašanin’s critical texts dedicated to the new Serbian literature, published in monographs Found things (1961), Destiny and people (1968), Meetings and letters (1974) with review of study Serbian literature of the Middle Ages (1975), a book of memoirs and prose The Sudden discoveries (1977), and as well as the articles, notes and reviews that Kašanin had published in the daily and literary magazines during the second, third and fourth decades of the twentieth century. According to the research, we came to the conclusion that for the systematization and evaluation Kašanin’s critical work are not relevant his critical judgments, but a unique historical and literary vision, comprehensive critical ideology, classical and innovative literary aesthetics, symbiosis of the intuitive and conceptual thought, interdisciplinarity and methodological pluralism, finally, a style of expression of the ideas. Kašanin has shown a great narrative talent in the interpretation of new and old Serbian literature. Therefore Kašanin’s critical texts can be read and evaluated as a good prose that greatly enriches the Serbian literary criticism and narrative tradition.

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