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Unorthodox experience of faith in Ivan V. Lalić’s and Miodrag Pavlović’s poetry : a comparative study
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Unorthodox experience of faith in Ivan V. Lalić’s and Miodrag Pavlović’s poetry : a comparative study
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| title: | Unorthodox experience of faith in Ivan V. Lalić’s and Miodrag Pavlović’s poetry : a comparative study |
| author: | Maszkiewicz Magdalena 
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| editor: | Sosnowska Danuta, Drzewiecka Ewelina |
| book title: | The experience of faith in Slavic cultures and literatures in the context of postsecular thought |
| date of publication: | 2018 |
| place of publication : name of publisher: |
Warszawa : Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego |
| pages: | 166-177 |
| eISBN: |
978-83-235-3717-5 (pdf online) 978-83-235-3733-5 (mobi) 978-83-235-3725-0 (e-pub) |
| URL: | |
| date accessed: |
2019-04-04 |
| notes: | Recenzowane materiały z konferencji “The experience of faith in Slavic cultures and literatures in the context of postsecular thought" (16.10-17.10.2017, Warszawa) |
| language: | English |
| book language: | English |
| abstract in English: | The paper aims to present two models of unorthodox Christianityrelated religious experience in the poetry of two twentieth-century Serbian authors: Ivan V. Lalić (1931–1996) and Miodrag Pavlović (1928–2014). In their works, both poets reflect on the existential situation of contemporary humans by reinterpreting cultural texts from antiquity to modern times. This paper is a comparative analysis of their poems that refer to Christian texts, including the Bible as well as Byzantine and Orthodox literature. In Lalić’s poetry, especially in the books "The letter/The writing" (Pismo, 1992) and "The four canons" (Četiri kanona, 1996), God is presented as capricious and unpredictable, yet silent and mostly absent. The lyrical subject feels doubt, enhanced by the experience of death and evanescence; nevertheless, love inspires him to constantly search for a relationship with God. However, the effort of faith seems to have only one direction and depends exclusively on the subject’s will. Pavlović plays an ironic game in his works with Christian texts of culture, especially in the book The bright and the dark holidays (Svetli i tamni praznici, 1971), in which the sacred constantly mixes with the profane. The rebellious and blasphemous approach to Christian texts that is represented by the lyrical subject is not a mere negation of the traditional idea of holiness. Most of all, it can be understood as an attempt not only to overcome classical oppositions in thinking about the world and humanity, among which there is a dichotomy between the immanent and the transcendent, but it is also an attempt to rearrange the whole of reality. In poems by Lalić and Pavlović, modern consciousness is in throes with the experience of transcendence. |
| keywords in English: | postsecular studies in literature, Serbian poetry, Lalić, Pavlović, unorthodox, experience |
| number of pulisher's sheets: | 0,75 |
| affiliation: | Wydział Filologiczny |
| type: | chapter |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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