Bosnian Authors in a European Window

A Comparative Study
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-61963-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 102 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 273 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Literature

The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer, the novelist Meša Selimovic to Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the novelist Ivo Andric to Leo Tolstoy. The purpose is to move the appreciation of the writing of the most important Bosnian writers of the 20th century closer to the European literary community and to the wholeness of the literary phenomenon. Secondary literature on the Bosnian authors is too narrow, focusing on their ethnic heritages and the Balkan milieu in which they write and missing something essential to a critical appreciation of their works. The study creates not only affinities but, more importantly, amitiés between the authors. The discipline of comparative literature reveals what is missing in the secondary literature, namely, a vision of the literary universe, inclusive and comprehensive.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doubt, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Homer and Mak Dizdar

1. The Greek Spirit and Pious Irony in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar

2. Mak Dizdar’s Over-Writing of Homer’s Odyssey: A Bloomian Analysis of a Bosnian Poet

3. The Literary Interpretation of Mak Dizdar’s Poem, "Blue-Violet River”

Part II. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Meša Selimovic

4. Comparing Meša Selimovic’s Dervish and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Underground Man

5. The Drama of Double-Voiced Discourse in the Prose Writing of Meša Selimovic and Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part III. Leo Tolstoy and Ivo Andric

6. Scapegoating and Martyrdom in the Works of Ivo Andric and Leo Tolstoy

7. Heroines’ Suicides in the Works of Ivo Andric and Leo Tolstoy with Genevieve Tripp

8. Theorizing History in the Works of Ivo Andric and Leo Tolstoy

9. The Idealization of Women in the Novels of Ivo Andric and Leo Tolstoy with Genevieve Tripp

Conclusion: The Case for Comparative Literature: Constructing Amitiés

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Doubt has authored literary essays on the works of William Shakespeare, Ivo Andric and Meša Selimovic, and books on the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the impact of the war on this cultural heritage.