/ 1968
IN MEMORIAM: DUŠICA DUDA MILOVANOVIĆ
 
/ 1968
REVIEW OF ART EXIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY OF THE CENTER FOR STUDY IN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN 2015
/in Critiques and Reviews /by Kcs21blAA 
/ 1968
THE CONTEXT OF MEDIA SPECTACLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF SOCIAL CRISIS
/in Studies /by Kcs21blAAFrom the perspective of a predominantly hegemonic discourse, the paper addresses the issue of what happens to the meaning of media contents when the ideological aspect of message coding is unclear. The paper analyses the processes caused by the media context in contact with active audience under the circumstances of social crisis, on the example of the media spectacle of the state ideological apparatus of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1987 – the Youth Day.
/ 1968
E-BOOK
/in Studies /by Kcs21blAAUnlike many texts written in the past two decades about the end of the printed book, this paper deals with the end of e-books. The latest reports of big losses in electronic publishing show that printed books have taken precedence again, which seems to hold ground. However, ups and downs in e-publishing have been happening before: the initial optimism from the beginning of the 90s has been replaced by serious doubts, followed by launching of the Kindl reader that gave e-books precedence over printed versions. In contrast to this rather unstable situation on the market, the appearance of e-books has caused more controversy and future predictions than any other new medium before them. Many have predicted the end to the printed books and thus the end to an entire civilization, others have announced digital culture as a whole new way of life. Only some of them hesitated to call the changes revolutionary and most agreed that e-books have many advantages over the printed ones. Will anyone dare to predict anything now?
/ 1968
NARRATIVE ASPECTS OF THE HYPERTEXT
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAThe paper discusses narrative aspects of the hypertext, with special emphasis on achrony and focalisation. It also questions the thesis that the database offers resistance to narrative. On the contrary, a database as a symbolically unorganised system is arranged into an encoded order of the storyline owing to narratological strategies. The narrative lines can only be limited by the focaliser (author/reader).
/ 1968
TIME OF CRISES
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAThis paper analyzes a specific relationship between ideology as an anti-historical category and the narratives underlying the novel The Time of Miracles by Borislav Pekić. It highlights the key features of immutable and always the same ideological mechanisms, regardless of the contents of ideas in whose name they act. Among many ideological tools, there is narration as a primary means to produce an ideological system as an instrument of action based on the perception of community. However, narrative techniques also represent the only means that enables freedom. By forgetting about the symbiosis of ideology and narrative, the Serbian literary scene is at a narrative crisis due to its sterile wandering through the text. The solution out of the crisis is not in ignoring the ideological nature of storytelling, but in finding the right distance between the complex reality that surrounds us and the ideas that guide us.
/ 1968
NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN PORTRAYING CHARACTERS WITH DISORDERS IN THE SERBIAN NOVEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAThis paper considers different narrative strategies and manners of modelling characters with various disorders as the “other” in the Serbian novel at the beginning of 21st century, in the context of the post-postmodernist poetics and the post-structural (Foucauldian-deconstructionist) interpretative paradigm. Even though at first glance it seems that such interest of novelists provides proof for a crisis of narration exhausted in an interest in the bizarre, the case is quite the opposite. The results show that the differences of this kind in the novels in question are depicted not as stigmatization, but as a struggle for the right of having one’s own identity, regardless of the fact it does not meet the normative identity standards.
/ 1968
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE IN THE NOVELS FLEA PALACE AND FORTY RULES OF LOVE BY ELIF SHAFAK
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAElif Shafak, one of the distinguished representatives of Turkish Postmodernism, uses different narrative techniques to critically provoke traditional forms and values still present in Turkish literature. The paper deals with the narrative techniques used by Elif Shafak in her novels Flea Palace and Forty Rules of Love. By developing a unique narrative method based on the concept of circle, and also based on experimenting with different narrators and multiple points of view, Elif Shafak creates novels which have distinctive place in Turkish literature, as could be noticed from the fact that she is a very popular writer in Turkey as well as abroad.
/ 1968
CONTEMPORARY FICTION IN FUNNY COSTUMES: CROSS-DRESSING IN THE NOVELS OF SARAH WATERS
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAEven though earlier works such as John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman or Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea foreshadow current interest in the Victorian period, neo-Victorian fiction has been defined as an independent genre since the 1990s. More than just examples of historical fiction, neo-Victorian novels engage with and (re)interpret the Victorians with a marked self-consciousness. Thus, they perform a double task: in masquerading as Victorian novels, they raise questions about identity and difference between the Victorian period and the present day, shedding light on contemporary issues as well as providing a vehicle for expressing Victorian taboos, or questioning their (our?) values. The recurrent trope of cross-dressing and masquerade can be understood as a reflection of this duality. The aim of this paper, then, is to explore the use of this trope in the novels of Sarah Waters as a metaphor for the status of neo-Victorian fiction in general.
/ 1968
DISPERSED NARRATION OF THE NEW COSMOPOLITAN NOVEL: DAVID MITCHELL, CLOUD ATLAS
/in Crisis of Narrative /by Kcs21blAAThe ever-increasing body of contemporary cosmopolitan theory, partly inspired by globalisation and globalisation theory, focuses on various aspects of literary and artistic cosmopolitanism since antiquity. It concerns itself especially with the so-called new cosmopolitanism whose development was primarily marked by two events: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Among the key foci of interest in cosmopolitan theory is the cosmopolitan novel, characterised by urban and virtual spaces as sites of global circulations, the overcoming of traditional ideas of community and fragmented, yet cohesive kaleidoscopic narration. This article aims at analysing the dispersed narration and narrative structure of the cosmopolitan novel by and narrative structure by discussing Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a pioneer of the new cosmopolitan fiction in the 21st century. The idea is to explore the nature of narration in the novel, its meaning and effects, all of which point to a pressing need to reconsider our perception of a host of subversive and transgressive narrative techniques and strategies used in the novel today.
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