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Holy and Worldly... Body, Somatic Dimension of Narration

The article briefly presents a series of problems discussed in the dissertation entitled Свето и пропадљиво. Тело у српској хагиографској књижевности (Holy and Worldly. Body in Serbian Hagiographic Literature) by Smilja…

Avant-garde in Panoramic View

The Seeing Avant-garde [Widzenie awangardy] volume edited by Agata Stankowska, MarcinTelicki and Agata Lewandowska is a collection of the articles about the avant-garde update.Written by many researchers, the articles s…

Literature and Revolution as an Avant-garde Heritage. Round Table on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

The text summarizes and reviews the round table organized on the 19th September 2019 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with the main goal to investigate the methodological and thematic approache…

Decentred Geographies: Poetics and Politics of the Avant-garde

Thanks to the work of Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch and many others, over the past two decades, the concept of world literature has once again become the subject of thorough examination within the fie…

A [Non]realistic Portrait of the Half-deaf Tonka by August Cesarec

In the centre of the article's interest, there are the expressionist ideas present in the work by Croatian writer from the inter-war period (1893-1941). The mini-novel/novella in question entitled Tonkina jedina ljubav…

Avant-garde After the Avant-garde in Croatian Poetry

The article discusses the problem of the avant-garde in Croatian poetry during the second half of 20th century. It supports the thesis about the continuity of the avant-garde before and after World War II, and perceives…

Augustin Tin Ujević's Experience of the Belgrade

The subject of the analysis in this article are the texts of Augustin Tin Ujević created during his stay in Belgrade. The way of experiencing this city by the poet is reflected through the relationship between the subje…

‟In Search of New Dynamic Forms of Speech" "The Twelve" as an Avant-garde Phenomenon of 1930s Ukrainian Literature

"The Twelve" was the name of a group of Ukrainian littérateurs, active during the period of 1934 to 1939 in Lviv. The phenomenon of "Lviv's youngest literary bohemians of the 1930s" (W. Gabor) was discovered relatively…

Flâneur of the Surreality. Vítězslav Nezval's Surreal Walks around Prague

In the surrealistic period of his literary work Vítězslav Nezval, following the French formula of presenting Paris as an archetypical modern city, published textual passage Pražský chodec (1938) which title is taken fro…

Transgressions. Penetrations. Synchronicity. Comments on the Imagination in the Croatian and Serbian Literary Avant-garde

The article discusses selected problems of the image, imagination and the ideological-aesthetic consciousness of the avant-garde in Croatian and Serbian literatures. Inspired by the ideas of modern Europe and opened to…

Futurist Suggestions in the War Poems by Josip (Sibe) Miličić

With the opening of the twentieth century, the beneficial river of the avant-gardes seemed to flood the entire European continent in a happy contamination of national cultures, giving life to an authentic supranational…

The Slav Avant-garde in Australian Art

Australian art history includes a peculiar short period during which the European avant-garde values were brought to Australia by a group of Slav artists who gathered in Adelaide in 1950. They were brothers Voitre (1919…

Wandering Idea of the Avant-garde. Centre for Cultural Decontamination and Serbian Resistance Culture

The article addresses the presence of the avant-garde in the discourse and the practice of social resistance in Serbia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The focal point of the text is the thesis that nowadays…

The Rearguard of the Avant-garde (Editor's Note)

Deconstruction and the Archival Revolution: on the Relevance and Reception of Archive Fever in New Media Studies

The paper focuses on the reception of Derrida's Archive Fever among (new) media theorists and its relevance for the ongoing discussions in that academic field. Although this Derrida's text is often described as the one…

Towards a Different Knowledge: the Knjiženstvo Database and the Digitisation of Materials

The first part of this paper introduces the concept of digital humanities and the phases that some researchers note in the development of the humanities in new, digital media, as well as the role of digital humanities i…

Archiwum jako praktyka w historii literatury

Archive as a Practice in the Literary History

Archive as a Practice in the Literary History

The Journal "Novorečje" in the Context of Serbian and Polish Studies of Neologisms

The paper presents the activity of a new Serbian journal "Novorečje" dedicated exclusively to neologisms in language. Analyses disseminated in this periodical are discussed in the context of the approaches to new vocabu…

The Dynamic of the Present Day in the Lexicon Mirror

This review is a short presentation and an analysis of the book Динамика и иновации в лексикалната система на българския език, published in 2019 in Plovdiv. The book consists of nine parts, each dealing with a different…

A Citizen of Two National Cultures

Emil Korytko, a Polish student in Lwów (Galicia, Austrian partition), was arrested on accusations of activity in a Polish independence movement organisation. After over two years long investigation and imprisonment, he…

The Survival Force of Literature

The following review article brings a presentation of the published in 2018 encyclopaedia of Czech literary samizdat. The analysed publication consists of two parts - a comprehensive introduction discussing the question…

The Traps of [Lacking]Memory. Representations of the GULag in the 21st Century Culture: Literature, Film, and Art

The subject of the article is the review of the book "Inwiefern ist das heute inter-essant?" Erinnerungen an den stalinistischen Gulag im 21. Jahrhundert by the German literary scholar Nina Friess (2016), which is deali…

Social and Educational Functions of [Literary] Narratives

The study deals with social and educational functions of (literary) narratives - both oral and written - in everyday life of a socially grounded individual. Narratives (or stories told or read) play an essential role in…

The Russian Expression не судьба and Its Polish Equivalents

The subject of the article is a comparative analysis of the Russian expression не судьба кому-л. and its Polish equivalents. In the ethno-cultural aspect, it describes one of the Russian key ideas - the concept of SUD'B…