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Early 1970s and the Cinematic Case of Tomislav Radić

Although his early feature length works - Živa istina and Timon - created quite a stir and could be called provocative at its time (the first half of 1970s), as much as they can be considered stylistically interesting w…

Reaches and Limits of the Symbolic Resistance. „Jeans Prose" in the Context of Yugoslav Socialism

The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose" (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, t…

Through the Eyes „of the Other" [Notes on E.G. Etkind's Prose]

In the article E.G. Etkind's prose is discussed from the point of view of its place and role in the dissident movement in the Soviet Russia. The particular attention is paid of Etkind's ideological differences with the…

Two Motives of Russian Dissident Movement: Background and Literature Antagonism Technologies

In the Russian social thinking, the notion „dissident movement" has appeared twice. For the first time, as a historical and theoretical term in the essay The Dissident (1866) by Nikolay Sokolov, and then, a century late…

„Writing the Truth Instead of History": Resistance to Ideology in some Croatian Plays in the Second Half of the 20th Century

In this paper the authoress refers to examples from the period between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century in Croatia which best illustrate not only the playwriting but also the lethalness of the ac…

„It's not on the Poet to Bow to the King". The Dissident's Position in Croatian Theatre Studies - the Ivšić Case

The paper discusses the position of Croatian playwright Radovan Ivšić in Croatian theatre historiography, before and after the independence of Croatia in the nineties. The research results point to three major phases in…

Poezie Pavla Zajíčka po jeho návratu z exilu

Pavel Zajíček was a leading personality of Czech rock and literary underground in the 1970s. His imprisonment in 1976 was an important impuls for creation of Charta 77. Communist establishment wanted to get rid of him a…

„The Emigrant Within": The Political Ideas of Milovan Djilas 1954-1989

The aim of this article is to examine the political ideas of Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) developed in his dissident period (1954-1989). Once a highly ranked communist and revolutionary of Tito's antifascist partisan army…

The Czech Lot: Illusions and Realities [Milan Kundera and Václav Havel Polemics]

The article is devoted to the analysis of the M. Kundera and V. Havel polemics over the fate and fortunes of the Czech ethnical identity, Czechoslovakian nationhood and ways of Czechoslovakian society development after…

Discourses of Feminism and Modernism in the Essays of Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić

I start from the definition of Serbian Yugoslav bourgeois culture as a semi-peripheral and having this in mind, I tend to analyze the essays by Julka Chlapec Đorđević and Jela Spiridonović-Savić, from the perspective of…

Resistance to the Totalitarian System as a Key Theme of the Memoir-Autobiographical Discourse of the Sixties

Some European nations and countries stayed in the area of totalitarianism for a long time. This fact and various ways of transforming and self-identity in a totalitarian society require careful studying in a broad scien…

In the „Whale's Womb" or the „Silent Outcry" of the Bulgarian Poets of the 1960s and 1970s

This article entitled unassumingly aims at reminding - just in a cursory way, but with a substantial degree of certainty, too, in their literary and historical justification - of a specific list of names of Bulgarian po…

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Figure of Žrec in Dežman's Ljutovid

This article analyses a construction of figure of žrec in the introductory canto of historical epic Ljutovid written by Croatian romantic writer Ivan Dežman. Žrec is a religious-magical figure which comprises functions…

Neoliberalism in Central Europe: Is It Magic, Religion or Science?

Expansion of capitalism to former communist countries was presented, especially by many intellectuals, as a scientific endeavor based on rational choice theory, management techniques and precisely measured market forces…

Pursuing the Magic of Words in the Twentieth-Century's Croatian and Serbian Literature

The essay titled „Pursuing the Magic of Words in the Twentieth-Century's Croatian and Serbian Literature" discusses transformations of the awareness of the avant-garde and postmodernism from the perspective of its relat…

The Curse and the Attempt to Protect from the Curse in the Short Story The Godfather's Curseby Janko Veselinović

In his rural themed short stories, Janko Veselinović gave snippets of life in the Serbian village of the XIX century that represent a valuable material for ethnological study. Folk meditations on sin, punishment, oath,…

Lexical Characteristics of Absolution of Sins in the Klimantović's Miscellany from 1512

This paper presents the lexical and linguistic characteristics of absolution of sins in the Croatian Church Slavonic Klimantović's Miscellany I, in which the patterns of release and absolution from sin are powerful oral…

The Performative Potential of Names in Miljenko Jergović's Collection of Stories Inšallah Madona, inšallah

The names play a main role in understanding of Miljenko Jergović's literary works and it is argued through analysis of collection of stories called Inšallah Madona, inšallah. The names have their history, they describe…

The Power of Women's Words in K.J. Erben's Ballads

The power of women's words in K.J. Erben's balladsdiscusses the author's literary texts (the collections Písně and Kytice), in which the woman is presented as a permanent character who is in the focus of significant con…

The Manuscript from Afterlife. Jakub Deml's The Castle of Death

In the story The Castle of Death(1912) Jakub Deml presents an esoteric text, which allows initiation, that is to say the revival and improvement of human spirit, because it points the way to the absolute hidden behind t…

Repetition, Parody or Disintegration of the Empty Plate of Magic Performatives in Croatian Contemporary Poetry

In the article, from different linguistic and literary theoretical perspectives, parodic function of anaphora is analyzed on samples of Croatian contemporary poetry. The aim is to present how a poem, especially one that…

Magical Word as an Action. A Few Thoughts about Bronisław Malinowski's Concepts

This article concerns Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographical theory of magical word. His theory was a revolutionary one for two reasons (1) he claimed that magical word is not an instrument of understanding of „primitive…

„The Text Was Considered Miraculous". Magic Words in Pasternak's „Doctor Zhivago"

In Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak brings scientific and political discourses into dialogue with magical ones. In an emblematic episode, two soldiers from opposing sides each wear a protective amulet containing the „miraculou…