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"Živanine cipele": patrijarhat, mizoginija, i nacionalizam u romanu Knjiga o Milutinu Danka Popovića

Author(s): Jasmina Radojicic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 19/2015

Through the lens of feminist critique and theory of literature, this paper will attempt to critically analyze the narrative strategies in the novel The Book about Milutin by Danko Popović which are directly related to the valorization of patriarchal values. By analyzing the way in which gender is presented from the perspective of the book’s two narrators, Milutin Ostojić and his wife Živana, this paper will try to show the relationship between the stereotypical depiction of the female identity in the novel and its importance in creating the desirable type of society. This analysis will then be linked with the remarkable success that the novel received after its publication and the fact that it is still perceived as one of the most important Serbian anti-war novels of the late 20th century. This work will have as its aim to highlight the importance of the revival and new examination of those strands in Serbian literary tradition that in practice actively and openly promoted the ideals of patriarchal society.

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(Бер)нардијева соба: оригинал фалсификата

Author(s): Svetlana M. Rajicic Peric / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 48/2012

As the result of reading there are two types of reading novel Bernardie’s Room by Slobodan Tišma. First version of interpretation is founding of hypertextual connections, while the second gives few ideas of this novel of ideas. Basic thread follows the transformation of this conception from platonic idea to idea in the age of mechanical reproduction of art.

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(НЕ)ДЕЧЈА ПОЕЗИЈА МИЛОВАНА ДАНОЈЛИЋА

Author(s): Jelena P. Veljkovic Mekic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 53/2014

Through an analysis of structures of Milovan Danojlić´s poetic texts this paper aims to point out those specificities which enable the interchange of a poetic code equally among children and adult recipients. Danojlić achieves the aforementioned through topics which are not intended exclusively for children due to absence of a child lyrical subject, semantic complexity and ambiguity, thought stratification and complexity, life morals and play which is quite often two-layered. Human beings and the complexity of their lives, vice and virtue, as well as some other important issues regarding human existence were appealing to the poet and through his poetic expression he gave his answer which reveals the truth, refrains from illusions and refuses dissimulation. Thus, his patriotism is awakened, his world is not homogeneous and it is marked with differences and opposites, his man is far from ideal, childhood is not always cheerful and careless, and play is based on the principles of destruction, parody and irony. Danojlić´s poetry is an example of maturity of his poetic style which blurs the distinction between naïve poems and serious literature intended for adult readers.

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A falu emlékezete – virtuális falvak, mikrovilágok és novellaalakzatok

Author(s): Gabriella Lódi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

The traditional literary representation of the village has completely changed in the contemporary literature. It is no longer the symbol of isolation, narrow-mindedness, of a non-informative medium, but that of the individuality and originality. The depiction of the local scenes from an ironic, parodistic aspect characterizes the writings of the younger generation. The documentation of the micro worlds and over-mythologization of the village-situations manoeuvre the texts. All stories are related, get written further and take a shape in a closed space of a micro community that already transforms its characters with undetermined identity and its discouraged readers into the virtual literary medium.

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An Unstudied Compilation with the Name of Andrew the Apostle

Author(s): Anissava Miltenova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2014

The paper presents an unstudied text with the name of the Apostle Andrew in the miscellany of 15th c., now Muz.10272, Rashka orthography. The text (with traces of archaic archetype) is a unique copy of the compilation. The history of the manuscript is very interesting, because it belonged to the A. Hilferding collection in the past. The aim of the author is to propose a preliminary analysis of the text, its origin and chronology, as well as its context in the Slavic tradition.

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Antologie w obiegu. O obecności i nieobecności staroserbskich tekstów w przekładzie na język polski – uwagi ogólne

Author(s): Izabela Lis-Wielgosz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 07/2015

This work deals with the problem of the reception of the former literature of the Slavia Orthodoxa circle in Poland, which is an issue folded, multifaceted, closely connected with the specificity of the two cultural spaces, seemingly different, but as it turns out, not so distant or different in their traditions. The issue of the translation of literature of Orthodox Slavs is discussed on the example of the Old-Serbian texts, given the criterion of presence and absence of these texts in Polish circulation readership.

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AVDO MEĐEDOVIĆ - PJEVAČ PRIČA

Author(s): Husein Bašic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 31-32/2005

Ovaj osvrt na Avda Međedovića i njegovo djelo, još jednog sandžačkog pjesnika-pjevača tradicionalnih usmenih junačkih pjesama homerovske stvaralačke snage i inspiracije, čije se pjesme s pravom mogu ubrojiti u najbolja svjetska ostvarenja u domenu epskog pjesništva, počećemo završnom konstatacijom dr Enesa Kujundžića, iz njegove kratke biografske bilješke o Avdu Međedoviću: "Na kraju valja istaći da je Avdo Međedović veoma zapostavljen u našoj nauci o epskom pjesništvu i pjevačima, Avde nema ni u književnim leksikonima, niti u školskim programima i udžbenicima. O njemu naša čitalačka publika ne zna gotovo ništa."

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Balkan History: No Longer European, Not Only Ottoman, and Not Yet National - A Case Study on the Historical Novel

Author(s): Albena Hranova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2007

In the final chapter of Imagining the Balkans (1997), while advancing arguments on the concept of the Balkans as an Ottoman legacy, Maria Todorova writes: “Turning to the Ottoman legacy as perception, it has been and is being shaped by generations of historians, poets, writers, journalists and other intellectuals.” In the Bulgarian edition (1999), Todorova adds a paragraph with names of writers to which she was referring – Ivo Andric, Dimitar Talev, Dobrica Cosic, Nikos Kazandzakis, and Anton Donchev. Especially the Bulgarian figures lead us to the role of the historical novel in shaping this legacy. [...]

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Bard za sva vremena? (Pjesničko djelo Alekse Šantića i njegova poetika i politika kulture)

Author(s): Sanjin Kodric / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with the role and position of Aleksa Šantić’s poetic oeuvre in the literary canon of both Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Serbian literatures in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as Serbian literature as a whole and Yugoslav literature. Special attention was paid to the early reception of Šantić’s poetic work, while emphasizing the discrepancy between local and broader understanding of the character and value of the author’s poetic oeuvre. In this way, the paper points to the complex process of canonization of the poetic work of A. Šantić, but also the possibility of its understanding today, particularly in terms of respecting poetics and politics of culture of the author’s time.

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Between Destiny and Reality: Prophetic and Messianic Ideological Constructions in Serbian Literature During the Ottoman Period

Author(s): Pawel Dziadul / Language(s): English / Issue: 53/2016

This paper deals with prophetic and messianic ideological constructions found in Serbian literature of the Ottoman period. Prophetic accounts developed in two connected directions among the Serbs in this period. On the one hand, old Byzantine-Slavonic prophetic narratives (for example the Revelation of Pseudo-Methodius, the apocryphal Visions of Daniel, the Oracles of Leo the Wise) were copied and actualized according to the politico-historical context. On the other, new anti-Ottoman and anti-Islamic prophetic accounts were created. Serbian and South-Slavonic prophetic notions were mostly concentrated on the impending doom of the Ottoman Empire and the legendary emperor of the “last times”, who was supposed to vanquish the Ottomans. Moreover, the Serbs tried to understand the new historical context of the Ottoman period and perceive it through the theological prism. Therefore they started creating a suitable messianic perspective of their destiny with the help of old, well-known ideas from the Nemanjić period (for example the idea of “new Israel”). Both prophetic and messianic ideological constructions seemed to be consoling ideas, which were created to highlight the memory of the magnificent past in the dramatic period of the Ottoman conquest and domination.

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Bilješke jednog pisca kao autopoetički, memoarski i putopisni tekst Sima Matavulja

Author(s): Ljiljana Pajovic Dujovic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 15/2017

The principle of the organisation of A Writer's Notes, which were published in the period from 1898 to 1903, involves the chronological arrangement of events and characters from different backgrounds that affected the shaping of Matavulj as a writer. Through his life and literary work, he was connected to many places: from Šibenik and Krupa, through Islam, Herceg Novi and Cetinje to Paris. Simo Matavulj (1852-1908) was a nomad and a Levantine, traveller and a bohemian, and thus this book whose main topoi are roads, square and cafés, confirmed, was so unusual for the 19th century Serbian literature, but were typical of realist literary epoch. He had a tendency to discover discrepancies between issues in a way that umasked the world he lived in, but often himself as well. He gladly concentrated on a point of view that made possible a humorous, ironic, parody-based or satirical subversion of issues and human characteristics. Writing about places and their influences, he discovered portraits of different people (of Count Ilija Jankovic from Dalmatia, the Duke of Medun from Montenegro, Spiro Poznanovic originally from Herceg Novi, etc.) as an optimal form which succeeded in synthesising the analytical as well as artistic demands and pretensions of A Writer's Notes.

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BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI KONULU SIRP VE TÜRK TARİHİ ROMANLARINDA GERÇEK VE KURGU

Author(s): AYKUT KSENIJA,STEFANI MILJKOVIC / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2016

The First World War had multiple effects on people who have lived in Southeastern Europe. Both Serbs and Turks participated in the war under different circumstances. Both nations shared common features that greatly affected their future. These features mainly pertained to the survival of arduous battles and the suffering of high casualty rates. The outcome of the war has to a large extent reflected upon the literary scene of both nations. Even though the writing style of Serbian and Turkish writers differed, there was a common humanistic aspect that was shared by the two nations. This aspect allowed the two nations, which had previously experienced the tragedy of war, to absorb the universal values such as peace and empathy, and to express these values through their literary works.Turkish and Serbian writers described the events from the war period with great ingenuity. During our research, we have uncovered common features pertaining to these two seeminlgy distant literary scenes. The research encompasses these common features as well as analyzes Turkish and Serbian literary works.

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Bruno i Benn, czyli pokrewieństwo po tamtej stronie śmierci

Author(s): Damir Šodan / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2015

When one compares the lots of two great European authors of the first half of the 20thcentury – the German poet Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) and the Polish-Jewish fiction writer Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) – at first sight their lives seem quite different and incomparable. Still, it is enough to reach under the surface of the so-called historical facts to realize that in some respects the two writers are indeed close to each other. Asregards politics and history, a common denominator of their biographies was Nazism as an emanation of pure evil from provincial East-Central Europe, and its belief that human nature may be improved which the historical process makes it possible to develop great geopolitical systems, even at the cost of suspending all ethical principles. A starting point for that daemonic parochial activism is mostly the “provincial spirit of utopia” or,to be precise, its irresistible “realistic nihilism,” to borrow a term coined by the Serbian philosopher Radomir Konstantinovic.

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Cerkiewnosłowiański przekład Ewangelii Mateusza w okresie po święcie Pięćdziesiątnicy w serbskich apostołach-ewangeliarzach krótkich Sv-17 i KM-512

Author(s): Jerzy Ostapczuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 57 (2)/2012

The article is devoted to two abbreviated Serbian Apostol-Gospel lectionaries from the collections of the Russian State Library in Moscow, P. I. Sevastianov collection (f. 270), no. 17 (Sv-17) and the Bulgarian National Library (Sts. Cyril and Methodius) in Sofia, no. 512 (KM-512). The collation of liturgical readings of the Gospel of Matthew (from the Pentecostal period of Synaxarion), based on 71 manuscripts, has shown that these two manuscripts have unusual readings (in terms of translation, additions, omissions, harmonization, etc.) that are characteristic only for these two lectionaries. The existence of the unusual readings of the Gospel of Matthew in these two lectionaries allows us to classify them as textologically homogeneous Church Slavonic manuscripts of the abbreviated lectionary.

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COPILĂRIA, ÎN LITERATURA ROMÂNĂ DIN VOIVODINA

Author(s): Brândusa Juica / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2016

Romanian literature for children and youth written in Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, is an integral part of literature created in the region after the Second World War. Until 1970, no original work for children had been published, all the achievements of this kind could only be found in the magazines “Bucuria pionierilor”(Vršac, 1946), which in 1956 became “Bucuria copiilor”. Books for children and about children that enter into specific relationships with the art, games, illustrations, culture and the traditions of the Romanians living in the region produce a full image of a valuable chapter of our literature, contributing to the completion of the self-image of the Romanian minority. This paper reveals the specificities of Mihai Condali’s poetry, one of the writers who immersed himself in the world of childhood.

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DE(RE)KONSTRUKCIJA PORODIČNOG ROMANA

Author(s): Petar Miloševic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 437/2006

Stigavši do tridesete godine svoga života, Danilo Kiš i Peter Estehazi počeli su da objavljuju knjige koje se mogu smatrati delovima jednog rastavljenog pa delimično remontiranog porodičnog romana. Kiš: Bašta, pepeo (1965), Rani jadi (1970) i Peščanik (1972), Esterhazi: Proizvodni roman (1979), Pomoćni glagoli srca (1985) i Harmonija celestis (2000, s Korigovanim izdanjem 2002).

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DERVIŠ AHMED GURBI (1698/9 -1771/2 )

Author(s): Redžep Škrijelj / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 37-38/2007

Priložena studija pruža kraći osvrt na život i pjesnički opus velikog novopazarskog pjesnika, sufije, mistika i šejha bektašijskog, ali i nakšibendijskog tarikata (pravca), Derviš Ahmed Gurbi Babe, o kome danas najviše doznajemo iz jednog od rijetkih sačuvanih primjeraka Divana (zbirke pjesama). Svojim izvanrednim pjesničkim talentom, Derviš Ahmed Gurbi obezbjeđuje zasluženo mjesto među plejadom vrsnih divanskih pjesnika koji su u periodu između XV i XIX vijeka djelovali u Novom Pazaru. Njegovi stihovi govore o snazi duha, domoljublju, dubokom misticizmu, vjerskoj orijentiranosti i književnoj grandioznosti jednog od prvih mislilaca koje je Novi Pazar iznjedrio. U studiji po prvi put objelodanjujemo tačnu godinu rođenja i smrti ovog velikog osmanlijsko-bošnjačkog divanskog pjesnika.

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Dialog swojskości i obcości w powieści "Most na Drinie" Ivo Andricia a modyfikacja znaczeń ewokowanych nazw własnych w przekładzie na język polski

Author(s): Martyna Ecler-Pasku / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

The paper analyses proper names in literary translation of the polisemantical ethonym ‘Turks’ (functioning also as an appellative) from the book "The Bridge on the Drina" by Ivo Andrić and its translation into Polish by Halina Kalita. The paper aims at looking into and analyzing in what way both the cultures i.e. the heterogeneous one of the original work — of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the one in the translation limit the translator in choosing equivalents. The analysis shows that there are five translational methods which indicate some system limits of the two languages and the semantic/cultural aspects of proper and appellative names.

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Doba velike umetnosti je prošlo, našu tugu proždire osećanje stida

Author(s): Milan R. Simic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 25/2017

Stvaralaštvo Danila Kiša već godinama stavlja se pod čitalačku lupu, o njegovoj prozi pišu se književne studije, nižu polemike i kritike, sve one zajedno jesu refleksije i novootkriveni vidici na umetnikovu slutnju zagonetke samog sveta, pa opet, prati nas utisak da je sve to još tako daleko od završnog (pro)tumačenja krajnjih mogućnosti njegove proze. Jer, naravno, samo od "stepena mudrosti" pitanja nas čitalaca i tumača zavise i odgovori koje će Kišovo slojevito delo dati i do koje ćemo dubine prodreti, sve slažući se da smisao svakog dela može se otkriti jedino u neposrednom dodiru sa njim.

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Drugi u poeziji Antuna Branka Šimića i Alekse Šantića

Author(s): Lejla Žujo-Maric / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

This work tries to examine the poststructuralist concept of otherness in poetry with social themes whose authors are poets Antun Branko Šimić and Aleksa Šantić. Following the idea that Balkan is settled at the margines of Europe and that it symbolizes place of war, social insecurity and political tensions, from the first side, and following the fact that Antun Branko Šimić and Aleksa Šantić are poets whose work is part of Balkan`s literature, from the other side, this work focuses on the poetic figures of workers, cripples, lost women and their attempt to express their social position.

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