Three Playwrights: Similarities and Differences With Regard to Ideas and Poetics (Vladimir Velmar-Janković, Dušan Nikolajević and Borivoje Jevtić) Cover Image

Три драмска писца: идејне и поетичке сродности и разлике (Владимир Велмар-Јанковић, Душан Николајевић и Боривоје Јевтић)
Three Playwrights: Similarities and Differences With Regard to Ideas and Poetics (Vladimir Velmar-Janković, Dušan Nikolajević and Borivoje Jevtić)

Author(s): Andreja Ž. Marić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Serbian Literature, Philology, Drama
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Serbian literature between the Great Wars; plays offering social criticism; literary right wing; bourgeoisie;

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains analysis of eleven plays by Vladimir Velmar-Janković, Dušan Nikolajević and Borivoje Jevtić, which belong to the corpus of those pieces from the interwar period characterized by harsh criticism of the social and political reality and moral deviations of civil society. The analysis showed that the main characteristic of the socio-critical dramas written between the two wars is their social relevance and a strong ideological message that warns of disintegration of civil society and culture. Ideological-critical line in these plays dominates over dramatic plot, and social criticism is always combined with family and romantic intrigues, typical for the classic psychological drama.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 108-122
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian