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Brill Rodopi, 2017

The essay first reflects on the ongoing critical debate on Banville’s literary placement. Arguabl... more The essay first reflects on the ongoing critical debate on Banville’s literary placement. Arguably, Banville’s work belongs to both modernist and postmodernist literary traditions. As regards his literary ancestry, the writer himself holds that he „go[es] in a Backettian direction“. This paper maintains that the connection between Banville’s and Beckett’s oeuvres is their fascination with silence. Banville, like Beckett, explores how to depict the unsayable. The paper argues that Banville locates it, above the words, which resembles Becket’s own investigation into the unsayable. Banville’s novel The Book of Evidence illustrates how the unsayable, rooted in common words, takes on a special meaning for the psychotic protagonist. Jacques Lacan describes this phenomenon in his seminar on psychosis, which is used to support textual evidence of the protagonist’s psychotic conceptualization of reality. This paper further argues that the protagonist’s “special meaning” is fully expressed only through the visual referentiality of language, that is to say, the ambition of language to transcend the limits of the verbal and realize its potential in the visual realm. Support for verbal vs. visual realization of meaning will draw on Giorgio Agamben’s views on the relationship of silence and sayability to painting.

Doomsday: smrt; Doomsday: Death, 2020

Ideje Frenka Kermoda i Horhea Luisa Borhesa o smislu konačnosti i vremena imaju naizgled malo zaj... more Ideje Frenka Kermoda i Horhea Luisa Borhesa o smislu konačnosti i vremena imaju naizgled malo zajedničkog. Dok je Kermod smatrao da zamišljanje kraja daje smisao stvarima Borhesovi lavirinti koji označavaju svemir naizgled obesmišljavaju takvu tvrdnju. I Kermod i Borhes cenili su formu - fiktivne obrazce koji bi uobličili haotične događaje. Koristeći formu detektivske priče koja, kao što je sam govorio, nije razumljiva bez „početka, sredine i kraja“ Borhes je takođe nagovestio važnost ideje o zaokruženosti smisla kroz „zamišljanje kraja“, makar taj kraj bio u neprestanoj regresiji („Smrt i Busola“), ili u lavirintu „staza koje se račvaju“ („Vrt sa stazama koje se račvaju“). Iako je izražavao sumnju u mogućnost klasifikacija i žanrova u književnosti i možda baš zbog te činjenice Borhes je u detektivsku prozu upisao svoje slike svemira i vremena, onako kako ih je video, u neprestanoj oscilaciji između pojave i iluzije. I Kermod i Borhes stvarali su veoma dugo i izlagali svoje ideje u studijama i predavanjima i donekle menjali stavove o prirodi vremena, smisla i tumačenja života i fikcije.
Namera ovog teksta je da pokaže kako obrazci konačnosti doprinose smislu i organizaciji ideja u Borhesovoj detektivskoj priči „Vrt sa stazama koje se račvaju“.

Silence in Modern Irish Literature, 2017

Folia linguistica et litteraria, 2019

Od početka karijere 1961. godine, kad je objavila svoju prvu zbirku pesama Double Persephone (Dvo... more Od početka karijere 1961. godine, kad je objavila svoju prvu zbirku pesama Double Persephone (Dvostruka Persefona), Margaret Atvud (Margaret Atwood) zaokupljena je temama (ženskog) identiteta. Dela Atvudove bave se pitanjima ženske potrage za samospoznajom i uključuju traganje i psihološku transformaciju. U fiktivnom svetu Atvudove potraga se razmatra u kontekstu istorije, geografije, kulture, društva i ekologije, tako da tekst često predstavlja narativizaciju geografskog i socijalnog prostora Kanade, dok su faze i rezultati potrage predstavljeni prostornim metaforama kao specifičnim obeležjem teksta Atvudove. Ovaj esej prati inskripcije ljudske svesti u slikama pejzaža u ranim delima Atvudove sa ciljem da predstavi kako pejzaž stvara i reflektuje apstraktne koncepte mišljenja poput roda, identiteta i bića. U romanu Izranjanje (Surfacing) iz 1972. godine potraga za psihološkom celinom bića opisana je u formi fizičkog putovanja kroz divljinu, dok je u zbirci poezije The Journals of S...

Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 2019

In the spring of 1968 a wave of revolt spread across the world. Although problems were different ... more In the spring of 1968 a wave of revolt spread across the world. Although problems were different from society to society, people from Europe to America to Africa and beyond seemed to have some shared concerns-the repudiation of the dominant regimes and mainstream ideologies at all levels of society and culture. The paper deals with the impact of the ideas of '68 and generally the spirit of the '60s which produced some profound changes in society and art. The special focus is on the impact of the global spirit of change on the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia from the perspective of the artistic endeavors of young artists in Belgrade who were committed to initiating a new artistic language through the art of performance.

Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 2016

In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" T. S. Eliot describes tradition as accumulatio... more In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" T. S. Eliot describes tradition as accumulation and flux. Tradition is, claims Eliot, "not … what is dead, but … what is already living". In his thinking Eliot was much influenced by Henry Bergson's philosophy of time. According to Bergson's study "Time and Free Will", every new event throws light on and changes the past. For Bergson as for Eliot, to be living means to be constantly changing. In his book London: a Concise Biography Peter Ackroyd describes the communion of present and past in the city space of London. He presents the events of London life over two millennia of its history as if they were happening on the stage of London's streets at the moment of speaking. On the other hand he meticulously builds the chronological grid into the texture of his narrative by providing accurate historical evidence. In this way, he writes London as a street spectacle against the backdrop of history. This paper aims at interpreting Ackroyd's image of the city in view of Eliot's philosophy of time and change.

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2013

To think about the material life of metaphors means to understand space as the projection of the ... more To think about the material life of metaphors means to understand space as the projection of the inner self of their occupants. In order to occupy a foreign space one has to negotiate one's own vision of the world with the landscape one occupies. In the case of migrant writers metaphors of space are especially significant. This paper will discuss the novels Milenijum u Beogradu (Millennium in Belgrade) and Venecija (Venice) by Vladimir Pištalo, and the collection of short stories Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust by Josip Novakovich. Pištalo and Novakovich were born respectively in Bosnia and Croatia and now live and write in the USA and Canada. In Pištalo's literature places house memories and meditations about the Balkans and Mediterranean, while Novakovic explores a war-torn Balkan world which determines his protagonists' lives even when they migrate to a better and safer space where they have a fresh start. The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of "home" as the "original shell" (Bachelard) according to which every place in which we dwell has the "meaning of the universe". In addition, it will tackle Bhabha's vision of the home of migrant writers in the discursive space of their own literature.

Филолог – часопис за језик, књижевност и културу, 2012

The Derridean concept of "trace" or supplement is set at the core of his studies of the unconscio... more The Derridean concept of "trace" or supplement is set at the core of his studies of the unconscious meaning of a text. Further, the textual unconscious is crucial to the deferral of meaning along the axis of diơ erence /diơ érance. In view of Derrida's ideas, Kazuo Ishigoro's novels, The Pale View of Hills and When We Were Orphans are analyzed as a narrative attempt to deconstruct the construction of reality that is grounded in conventional discourse. The article is based on the assumption that in Ishiguro's novels the narrative process oơ ers an insight into how the mind deals with experience. In this vein, the complex narration in Ishiguro's novels is viewed as a parallel to the processes in the human mind. The analysis of Ishiguro's narration is based on Beckett's and Proust's ideas about the issue of memory. Proust sees the dynamics of memory as a game of voluntary and involuntary memory, in which the former is a product of the conscious and the latter of the unconscious memory. On the other hand, Proust's meditations on the nature of memory may be linked with Freud's studies of repressed emotions and Samuel Beckett's conception of the process of forgetting as essential to recollection.

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013

This paper analyses the novel Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides from the point of view of the... more This paper analyses the novel Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides from the point of view of the Bildungsroman, considering moral, psychological, spiritual and social development and growth of the hero/ine from youth to maturity, whose desires and aspirations are in conflict with his/her environment and social order in the community. Regarding the Bildungsroman as a bond between (auto)biography and picaresque novel, Middlesex can also be considered as a Bildungsroman because of its specific narrative and the wanderings of the main protagonist from Detroit and San Francisco to Berlin. What makes Middlesex different from the classical Bildungsroman? During the process of development, the main heroine Calliope undergoes a unique change from a girl to a man, Cal, due to the impact of a mutated gene on three generations of an immigrant Greek family. Middlesex is a story about intersex where the protagonist, searching for her/his identity faces gender problem primarily within her/himself, and then with the community. The analysis of the inner life of the hero/ine and the struggle for his life mirrors the issues of the identity in the 21 century regarding the genre of the Bildungsroman.