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НОВА ОСМИШЉАВАЊА РАЗВОЈА УЧЕНИЧКИХ ВЕШТИНА У НАСТАВИ КЊИЖЕВНОСТИ
FANTASTIC ALTERNATIVES IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DEAD
Considering Kiš’s negative autopoetic views on the fantastique in literature, this paper reevaluates and reinterprets the fantastical narratives within his collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead. We also briefly define the nature of the fantastique and the characteristics of this story collection. Further research, conducted inductively, highlights the various modes of fantastique that Kiš employs (sacral projection, horror, oneirism, and fantasy of reality) and interprets how these modalities, in conjunction with the implicit worldview of opposing matrices, transform the so-called grand narratives represented here by the Bible, the Quran, encyclopedic knowledge, official history, and totalising representations of the world. The approach, as demonstrated, is postmodern and innovative. It projects new perspectives on Kiš’s oeuvre and enriches Serbian prose from the latter half of the 20th century.
UNITY OF OPPOSITES IN THE CONTEXT OF ALEKSANDAR TIŠMA’S NOVELS THE BOOK OF BLAM AND KAPO
The fruitful influence of unity of opposites, as dominant constructive pattern of Aleksandar Tišma’s artistic word is analyzed on the example of Tišma’s poetically representative novels The Book of Blam and Kapo. These two creations in correlation, not only in terms of giving voice to the horrifying experience in the Second World War, but also with regard to crucial motives, stylistic models, narrative discourse and the type of literary characterization, illustrate the mechanism of the unity of opposites as a creative formative principle. Tišma’s tireless effort to reach out for the darkest abysses of the human soul with his prose works The Book of Blam and Kapo also reveals to us a modern literary approach to the unconscious domain of mental stream.
REVIVED LAND: TRANSPOSITIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN THE EARLY ESSAYS
The main goal of the paper is to recognize and understand the ways in which the thought about the Serbian collective being and the national fate is shaped in the early phase of Isidora Sekulić’s essays, the end of which we see at the beginning of the First World War. In the first part of the paper we will try to point out the configuration of national and identity simbols, as well as the complex relationship between cultural heritage and the imperatives of time. Consequently, the second part will be devoted to the review of the value system within the framework of the First and Second Balkan Wars.
METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING LITERATURE AND THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF SERBIAN LITERATURE WITH SOUTH SLAVIC LITERATURES OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE
The paper examines the share of compulsory and optional methodical subjects and courses in basic, master’s and doctoral academic studies of Serbian literature and language at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. It points to a multitude of diverse teaching methods, didactic principles, forms of work and approaches that enable successful preparation of students for contemporary teaching of Serbian language and literature. Special attention is paid to successful interdisciplinary graduate and master’s theses, but also to student projects that represent creative, active and productive teaching of literature and the Serbian language at the Department of Serbian Literature with South Slavic Literatures of the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
Methodology of Teaching Literature and Serbian Language
TEACHING INTERPRETATION OF THE SHORT STORY “THE FIRST TIME WITH FATHER AT THE MORNING SERVICE” BY LAZA LAZAREVIĆ USING DRAMATIC METHOD
In this paper, we explore the possibilities of applying the dramatic method in the teaching interpretation of the short story ”The First Time with Father at the Morning Service,” focusing on Augusto Boal’s techniques, particularly forum theater. By applying forum theater techniques, students will actively participate in analyzing key scenes, stimulating discussions about various interpretations of the main characters, their relationships, and the complexities of the ideological layers of the literary work. The paper will include a detailed description of the application of dramatic techniques in teaching, examples of activities, and conclusions on how this approach can impact the understanding of literary texts. It will cover specific examples of classroom activities, such as group work and discussions, and highlight the significance of this approach to literary analysis.Through concrete examples, the paper demonstrates that the application of the dramatic method can positively influence the realization of a creative, exploratory, and imaginative teaching process in which both the teacher, as an active mentor, and each student, as a motivated researcher, can develop, learn, and acquire competencies for life and work in contemporary society, regardless of health, social, and other obstacles.
teaching interpretation of the short story ”The First Time with Father at the Morning Service”
ORAL TRADITION AND FOLKLORE FANTASY IN THE NOVELS OF DEJAN STOJILJKOVIĆ (LONG NIGHTS AND BLACK FLAGS, STORM RAMPART, A GOLD COIN FOR THE BOATMAN)
This paper interprets Dejan Stojiljković’s novels dealing with the events on the territory of medieval Serbia immediately before the Kosovo War, in the context of decoding the role of oral tradition and folklore fiction in creating the artistic world of Stojiljković’s works. By seeing the transposed motifs, characters and narrative plots from the folk epic, with the special importance of the dragon motif hero in the entire story, the role of the presence of mythical creatures from folklore, as well as of the archetypal layer of the work based on the Kosovo legend, our goal is to emphasize the potential of oral tradition as a source of inspiration for contemporary literature in interweaving of spoken and written words. Constants observed in the three works published so far in the five books announced by the author will provide a basis for future interpretations of the novel in which the oral tradition is an essential building component.
SEARCHING FOR RADE TANASIJEVIĆ’S QUIET PLACES
„Постоје” (Tanasijević 2009, 64), “They exist”, thus begins the poem Tiha mesta (Quiet Places) from the poetry collection Klimatske promene (2009, Climate Change) by Rade Tanasijević, later reprinted in his book Salon odbijenih (2014, Salon des refusés). This poem, however, would not be included in his books of new and selected poems Nestajanje (2013, Dwindling) and Stvari oko mene ubrzano stare (2020, The Things around Me Are Rapidly Aging) – at least not in the form it had in the earlier books. Instead, it would be condensed and transfigured into the title of one of the cycles of poems, which raises the question of whether the poet had lost faith in the existence of quiet places or whether he just wanted to expand and deepen this topic. Tanasijević often used the title of his poems for the title of the cycles of poems, which is especially noticeable in the selected and new poems (Tanasijević 2013; Tanasijević 2020). The poet, however, usually included the titular poem in the cycle itself – which (significantly) is not the case with the poem Tiha mesta. The basic premise of the following paper is that the poet’s quiet places, the idealistic and somewhat utopian spaces, are scattered around Tanasijević’s poetry and that they can be found, described and interpreted by close-reading all of his books of poems.
DUBROVNIK AS AN INTIMATE SPACE IN MILAN MILIŠIĆ’S BOOK OF POETRY ZGRAD
We will examine the specific experience of Dubrovnik recognized in Milan Milišić’s book of poetry Zgrad in relation to the centuries-old tradition of representing Dubrovnik, its urban architecture, Milišić’s poetic models in the representation of Dubrovnik and relevant extraliterary contexts. Of particular importance are the issues of the poet’s and the city’s identity, the intimate boundaries and geographical borders, and conflict between the poet and the city that prompts the use of certain poetic devices. By considering Milišić’s broader poetic and essayistic oeuvre, we will seek to determine why Dubrovnik stands out as a privileged intimate poetic space in Zgrad.
SIMULACRUM AND HYPERREALITY IN THE NOVEL DEVIL’S YARD
This paper focuses on the importance of the concepts of simulacra, simulation and hyperreality in the context of the interpretation of Devil’s Yard. Through the prism Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra and simulation, in this paper we explore how the postmodern identity and reality crisis are reflected in Andrić’s characters and their stories, immersed in a fictional world where the borders between the real and the fabricated become fluid. We’ll show how the ontological status of reality and the identity are undermined in Andrić’s narrative and what the relationship between the simulation and power is. In the end, we’ll show what role laws of simulation play in the conception of the story and narration as one of the central themes of Andrić’s work.
THE DAMNED YARD THROUGH THE PRISM OF EROTOLOGICAL AND QUEER READING
This work offers erotological and queer representation of the prison Deposito, interpersonal relations of the inmates, symbolic meaning of the nouns and their protagonists. The importance of the works lies in the necessity for refreshed approaches to the literary work, as well as in the attempt to look at The Damned Yard in another light. We approach this literary achievement hermeneutically having in mind theoretical and philosophical postulates about erotology as a humanistic discipline, her ally eros, as well as reading the work through the queer vision. We were able to confirm certain interpretations that exist in literary criticism, but also to broaden them and to underline in the literary text instances that could be read in a way like (homo)erotic associativity of the name Karađoz, his controversial acts, erotically compacted prison dilbers, Deposito as a peculiar erotic pollinator and friar Peter’s secret relationship with Ćamil. The results of the work indicate the importance of new interpretations of the literary work and can also be of utility to the investigators that decide to look a literary achievement in a different way. They also represent a unique revitalization of Andrić’s literary creativity because they can be understood as a call to look at his legacy differently. At the end, these results can induce future investigations on the same or similar topic, either within this work, some other from Andrić’s legacy, that is, some domestic and/or world literary achievement.
A significant part of this dissertation is devoted to the concentration camp experience of Milka Žicina. In the discourse of the former female prisoners’ memories, she also has a pioneering role in the formation of the women’s direction within the framework of a comprehensive discussion on the topic of Yugoslav camps for Informbiro officers. She was arrested in 1951 as a mature fifty-year-old woman, found herself in Belgrade’s Glavnjača prison, from where she arrived at the Stolac women’s camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she stayed from 1952 to 1955. An unusual testimony is presented in the novel Alone about the seven-month investigation and suffering in Glavnjača, which stands out for its high artistic value. The novel was published in 2009, posthumously, at Žicina’s last work, and it was written in the nineteen-seventies, fifteen years after being written, but the author was forced to hide her manuscripts. Mihajlo Lalić compared her memoirs All, All, All..., which is the prose about herself and the other eighty female prisoners, to Notes from a Dead House.
In the paper we read the eighth chapter of Andrić’s novel The Bridge on the Drina [Na Drini ćuprija] in the light of the poetics of tragedy. Tragic aspects of the narrative about the main heroine of the chapter, Fata, are observed in the range of three crucial questions: tragic conflict, tragic flaw, and position of the tragic character, while special attention is devoted to the phenomenon of fate. Since the depiction of these elements is conditioned by the stylistic currents of the epoch, we pay special attention to comparative insight into the various modern responses to the heritage of antiquity. In addition to achieving a broader insight into the introduced problem, another important comparative line is established by observing two more of Andrić’s female protagonists: Anika (Anika’s Times [Anikina vremena]) and Mara (The Pasha’s Concubine [Mara milosnica]), but also the main heroine of Stanković’s novel Impure Blood [Nečista krv].
THE DIALOGUE OF EARLY ANDRIĆ AND CRNJANSKI: A COMPARATIVE READING OF THE NOVEL ON THE SUNNY SIDE AND THE JOURNAL OF ČARNOJEVIĆ
through a comparative analysis of their early novels On the Sunny Side and The Journal of Čarnojević. The results of our research showed that a textual dialogue can be established thanks to the typological affinity of the main characters and the peculiarity of the narrative instances. Using the psychoanalytic method, we devoted special attention to the characterization of Toma Galus and Petar Rajić, considering them in the light of the time moment in which they were situated, their relationship to the metaphysical and topos puer senex. On the selected examples from the text, we pointed out the similarity of the multi-layered nature of their interior and world view, i.e. orientation towards the solar and celestial. Also, we have emphasized the complex narrative situation present in these novels, which implies the vacillation between three narrative forms (I, he and we) and the doubling of narrative perspectives, considering it in the context of the later narrative models of both authors. We devoted part of the work to the reconstruction of the image of the world, burdened by the experience of the Great War and its consequences, and the ways in which the authors, with occasional irony and deconstruction, manage to portray the atmosphere of an era. Aware that the differences in comparative readings often outweigh the similarities, we tried to provide a new interpretation and show how important the poetic and thematic affinities of these novels are for understanding the further course of Serbian literature and the evolution of the poetics of Andrić and Crnjanski.
STANISLAV KRAKOV’S PROSE: BETWEEN FICTION AND MEMOIRS
The work of Stanislav Krakov rests on the conjunction of the concepts of fiction, autofiction and documentary, thus representing in the narratological sense a challenge for interpretation, and the search for an answer to the question to what extent the work itself knows its referentiality. In the three books taken into consideration in this paper, their formal structure is problematized and the identity of the storyteller/author as a subject determined by the social dimension, social-historical context is revealed, thereby apostrophizing the themes that determine Krakow’s public and artistic discourse – war, the problem of national identity, the relationship to the victim and the Other.
REPRESENTATIONS OF DISABILITY IN THE NOVEL ČEDOMIR ILIĆ BY MILUTIN USKOKOVIĆ
This paper analyzes representations of female disability in the novel Čedomir Ilić. Disability serves as a focal point around which the narrative is formed (narrative prosthesis), characterizing the main protagonist and providing the novel’s central motivation (the first version of the novel was titled Lame Ideals). In the novel, disability is associated with physical disharmony, monstrosity, uprootedness, isolation, self-awareness, and a freer sexuality. Disability is viewed interdisciplinarily, and much like sexuality, it is considered both contextually and as a construct.
THE LIFE OF KING DRAGUTIN DANILO THE SECOND ACC
The paper deals with the copy of The Life of King Dragutin, made by priest Dmitar in his own hand at the Sopoćani Monastery in 1526, today preserved in the Alexander Hilferding Collection at the Russian National Library in St Petersburg, under signature number 55. It is a copy which, together with The Life of Queen Jelena, was separated from Danilo’s collection and made a part of a broader whole along with Teodosije’s The Life of Saint Sava and In Praise of Saint Simeon and Saint Sava. This copy, in terms of its being separate from the collection, has this in common with two other collections of texts, one from the old collection of the National Library of Serbia, entered in its records under no 21, which was destroyed in World War Two, the other being kept at the National Library “Saint Cyril and Methodius” in Sofia under no 267 (544). In the St Petersburg and Sofia copies of The Life of King Dragutin, there is a physical break, with one sheet missing, located in the same place in the text, which points to an earlier but not common source. The variant of The Life of King Dragutin from the Sopoćani collection is closest to the copy contained in the collection dating from 1553 and its excerpt from 1763. In the annex to this paper, we provide the edited text of The Life of King Dragutin from the Sopoćani collection.
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