The Destabilisation of Realistic Mimesis in Ilija Vukićevićʼs Novels with Elements of the Fantastic Cover Image

Дестабилизација реалистичке мимезе у приповеткама Илије Вукићевићa са елементима фантастике
The Destabilisation of Realistic Mimesis in Ilija Vukićevićʼs Novels with Elements of the Fantastic

Author(s): Sonja S. Đorić
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: fantasy; fairy tale fantasy; fantasy of the tradition; mimesis; realism.

Summary/Abstract: The main subject of this paper is the analysis of the problem of the fantastic in the works of Ilija Vukićević done on some examples of texts with the elements of fantasy: ”The story of the village Vraci and Sima Stupica”, ”How Nastas nalbantin sought and found happiness”, ”Pixy”, ”The Cursed beauty”, ”Tzar Goran”, ”The fearsome dream”, ”A healing stick”, ”The devil and the Girl”, ”The Heart”. Although fantastic discourse is the focus of one stage of Vukićević's works, its every systematic and complete study remained outside the primary aspect of our literary science. With the transformation of genres of folk literature with elements of fantasy (fairytale, lecture, humorous story) in the direction of a realistic storyline, the stylisation of the traditional fairy tale into the ”evil fairytale”, the realisation of the fantastic discourse at the level of fabula, chronotopes, character building and conception of certain typology of the fantastic Vukićević achieved destabilisation of the mimetic as the basic postulate of the realistic discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 505-520
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian