Rečnik paraknjiževnih termina
Dictionary of Paraliterary Terms

Summary/Abstract: Written in satirical manner, not in the manner of literary analysis, Dictionary of paraliterary terms finds, “defines” and mocks unintentionally comical expressions found in Serbian literary criticism. “Systematic production of stupidity and nonsense”, as author calls it, is actually a feature of nationalistic literary criticism, written by critics who are at the same time university professors – teachers to future teachers, but also editors, members of juries, reviewers of school textbooks, or literary arbiters in general. Author focuses on their critical pieces concerned with already established poets whose work are obligatory school reading, with hope that literature students and future teachers will use his examples as means to reassess works of their professors, and reevaluate academic literary criticism and canon it helped to establish.

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