Myth on the romantic love in the prose of Leposava Mijušković
Leposava Mijušković during her short life had published only four short stories, which were published at the beginning of the 20th century in the Serbian Literary Gazette, and under the common title The Stories on Soul in 1996. This author, not only was she writing in the spirit of her time, but it...
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Institute of Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Baština |
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| Online Access: | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2013/0353-90081334115A.pdf |
| Summary: | Leposava Mijušković during her short life had published only four short stories, which were published at the beginning of the 20th century in the Serbian Literary Gazette, and under the common title The Stories on Soul in 1996. This author, not only was she writing in the spirit of her time, but it can be said she was poetically shaping that time by her prose as well: the way she is treating love thematic, characters building, technique of fragmentation and course of consciousness, all mentioned in the Serbian literature of her time was new and different from the dominant realistic prose. Contemporary interpreters are starting, first of all, lrom the autobiographic foundation of this prose and its modernistic poetic preoccupations. Nevertheless, the emphasized individualism of the hero, and the fact they are preoccupied by their inner world directed to the realization of the own values and personal choices (first of all, searching for the soul mate, request for the freedom in love and free love), and they live outside of the sphere of influence of social-economic relationships, are bringing them closer to the heroes of European Romanticism, such other themes in this oeuvre (madness, sickness, suicidality, clash of intellect and emotions) are European Romantic inheritance. In the prose of Leposava Mijušković the technique of story-telling is to be a modernistic one, and even then we are talking about in terms of Serbian literature bearing in mind the fact fragmentation, introspection and course of consciousness were known to European Romanticism, but a drastic discrepancy of subjective values of their heroes with the ones of the milieu they are living in it is to be a distinct Romantic trait. The analysis of pseudo-love which the heroes of these short stories are reaching puts in the focus mechanisms of their psychologistic functioning: their love choices were caused by unconsent psychologistic processes (denying, idealization, transfer, problem of separation), which has for its consequence the realization of immature love. By the myth of romantic love the heroes are covering the knowledge they are reaching by their personal history so that this myth in the function of denying makes psychologistic maturing to the protagonists as well. The reality is being conceptualized in accordance with myth so that the death is in strong connection with love failure by personifying of the failure of primary experience of separation; the choice of death is in this prose the recoil in front of the self-consciousness development. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-9008 2683-5797 |