ИДЕНТИТЕТ, ВAВИЛОН И ОГЛЕДAЛО: КОМПAРAТИСТИЧКA ПОРЕЂЕЊA
BABYLON, IDENTITY AND THE MIRROR: COMPARING COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Cultural encounters of various kinds are reconstructed and deconstructed in books by Svetozar Koljevic, Tihomir Brajovic, Zorica Becanovic-Nikolic and Slobodan Vla- dušic with the help of various critical methods which cast a thoroughly new look at the realm of literature. Covering the range of seemingly distant topics and methods that include Shakespeare and Ivo Andric, Romantic epic and Miloš Crnjanski, hermeneutics and cultural studies, the four authors manage to instruct and intrigue their readership. While Tihomir Brajovic discusses the epics by Njegoš, Mažuranic and Prešern, Sveto- zar Koljevic and Slobodan Vladušic focus upon the best novels by the twentieth century Serbian writers, all three sharing the ambition to expose and demistify the Other in the literary history of former Yugoslavia. Zorica Becanovic-Nikolic offers a thorough analysis of conflicting paradigms in the readings of Shakespeare’s history plays, demonstrating how history and theory affect the meaning of literature.

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