Starting from the postulate of Christian doctrine that every creation comes from the Holy Spirit, we have applied the already known principles of Theopoetics to the construction of churches and ...monasteries, through the topos of the struggle in God's name. We have found confirmation for this form of the preconditioning of human salvation in the hagiographical texts of old Serbian literature. In connection with the given topic, we pointed out timeliness (timely dedication to this God-pleasing work), as a key element which narratively shapes the soteriological motivation of this type of human feat. Speaking about the aesthetic correlation of the building of churches and monasteries, we pointed out the complexity of medieval aesthetics based on Christian doctrine.
Starting from the postulate of Christian doctrine that every creation comes from the Holy Spirit, we have applied the already known principles of Theopoetics to the construction of churches and ...monasteries, through the topos of the struggle in God's name. We have found confirmation for this form of the preconditioning of human salvation in the hagiographical texts of old Serbian literature. In connection with the given topic, we pointed out timeliness (timely dedication to this God-pleasing work), as a key element which narratively shapes the soteriological motivation of this type of human feat. Speaking about the aesthetic correlation of the building of churches and monasteries, we pointed out the complexity of medieval aesthetics based on Christian doctrine.
В научной работе указаны наиболее характерные примеры династической конфликты между отцами и сыновыми, которые наиболее очевидны в агиографи¬ческих текстах Данила II и Григория Цамблака. События и ...действия, которые отклоняются от хорошей практики правления и не соответствуют христианским предпосылкам сербского средневековья, объясняются влиянием влияния падшего ангела и его помощников на мысли отдельного человека. Кроме того, эти тексты содержат описания материализации бесчестного в этом мире, который формули¬руется по-разному: злые убеждения воплощаются в непослушной жени, гордом наследнике или целом дворянстве. Как ключевой элемент, влияющий на то, будут ли отношения между отцами и сыновьями правящей сербской династии разви-ваться в правильном направлении или подпадут под влияние демонической (лжи), послушание выделяется как наиболее совершенная форма христианской любви.
Considering how topoi, or commonplaces, in medieval literature are not seen as banal but as a recognized form of typified actions and do not diminish the author’s inventiveness, we explored the topos ...of suffering for others’ sake in a hagiography dedicated to Jovan Vladimir, an integral part of The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja. Our methodological framework was based on an approach accepted in medievalist studies, which involves the use of a theological framework. Thus, we searched the New Testament for the architext of the narratives found in this hagiography. Thus far, domestic scholars have paid more attention to the holy knez than to the holy kneginja, whereas our insight suggests that the spiritual kinship of these two beings is highlighted using the same elements of characterisation. The enlightenment of both (coming from the Holy Spirit) is emphasized; both are ready to lead a life of asceticism; both are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of others (for greater good), owing to which they both take on the role of the Good Shepherd. Speaking of intertextuality, we point to the narrative strategy of identifying the suffering of Jovana Vladimir with the suffering of Jesus Christ, as seen through the actions of the main character, as well as the reactions of his loved ones to his appearance. On the other hand, the willing acceptance of God’s plan, as exemplified by the character of Kosara, mirrors the actions of the Mother of God, as described in the Gospels. In accordance with that, the hagiography of the holy knez contains the motif of the betrayal, which we discuss on an individual level, through the character of the župan of that place, but also on the collective level, when both the secular and church community, abstaining from any reaction, participate in the suffering of the innocent. The symbolism of the cross occupies an important place in this hagiography. The wooden cross on which the Son of God himself suffered stands in opposition to the golden cross, paradigmatic of the sinful man, in this case Emperor Vladislav, the slayer of the innocent. All the features fundamental to the heroes of the hagiography are a clear evidence of their holiness, and their orientation to the Logos does not impinge on the loyalty they have to one another, the two really being one and the same, as the feat of absolute and unconditional devotion to one another is in itself an act pleasing to God.
Iako je istraživački cilj u ovom radu osmišljen narativom hagiografa prve polovine XIV veka, arhiepiskopa Danila i njegovog učenika, uspostavili smo kontinuitet sa Svetim pismom i autorima XII i XIII ...veka. Uočivši shemu utrojavanja - termin iz bogoslovske terminologije koji smo inkorporirali u književnoteorijsko istraživanje - istakli smo tri bazične funkcije projavljivanja anđela; trostepenost monaško-anđeoskog života; tri oblika posredništva između Boga i čoveka od kojih je svaki na tragu anđeoske ontologije izvršioca volje Božije. Narativna strategija arhiepiskopa Danila i njegovog učenika predominantno je fokusirana na podrazumevajuću ulogu anđela u tipskim situacijama u kojima se u prethodnom periodu o projavljivanju anđela detaljno govorilo i slika je trećeg stepena (trećeg načina) isticanja funkcije bestelesnih nebeskih bića u žitijnoj literaturi stare srpske književnosti. Ovakav stav Danila II i njegovog učenika proizlazi iz isticanja čovekove nedostojnosti komunikacije sa metafizičkim prostorima Istine Božije, koja istovremeno jeste izvor straha Božijeg, ali i težnje za sjedinjenjem s njim.
Studying the texts from a corpus of old Serbian biographies, we left out examples of the genre of weeping, and emphasized the descriptions of weeping as events. In this paper, we focus on the ...examples of female weeping in hagiographies as well as the examples when the heroines and the events related to them resulted in weeping of the other participants in the hagiographic events. The topic of the study is placed in the context of private lives of people in the Middle Ages. The descriptions of weeping and the author's interpretation are linked with the institution of the family; they follow two types of expressing emotions through weeping: weeping for a dear person who died and weeping as an expression of being close to God, as a form of ischaistic praying mode. Focusing on the first hagiography dedicated to a woman, 'The Life of Queen Helen', we come to the conclusion that medieval hagiography did not insist on gender differences but on the closeness of the male and female elements, based on spiritual similarity and eschatological endeavors.
This paper is based on a reading of the famous Dušan Kovačević's drama Balkan Spy, contextualized by postulates of simulacra. The starting point for finding symbols that corresponded to the system of ...the non-referent world (and each such system creates its own reality, and proceeds from its own frame in which it must be interpreted) is a book of Jean Baudrillard 'Simulacrum and Simulation'. Through chapters that accentuate simulacrum-like phenomena for proving the actual through imaginary and cloned, as well as defining the world of literary text as a kind of Disneyland, it becomes evident soundness of this idea that confirms the quality of this drama.
У овом раду смо поимање феномена стваралаштва у српској медиевистичкој литератури истражили на примерима житија архиепископа Данила Другог и Даниловог Ученика. Полазећи од тога да о књижевном тексту ...ове епохе треба говорити као о продукту ентузијастичке поетике, упоредили смо средњовековно богонадахнуће са потенцијалним поетичким панданом – Платоновом теоријом стварања. Консултујући одређени корпус Платонових дијалога на једној страни и теоријске текстове Аверинцева, Бичкова, Берђајева и Свето писмо на другој, истакли смо суштинску различитост ове две поетике које стваралачки импулс приписују божанској интервенцији.
Although in the reader of Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, a search for any logos would turn into a Sisyphean task, although the reading of this novel is not a contact with one meeting, but rather a ...network of meanings, there is an obvious relationship with the real world in the form of a parody or reassesment. That is why some of the themes that this paper addresses are: the relationship between fiction and reality implied by the author’s narrative method; sexual discourse, as well as a parody of the world of intellectuals (professors, critics, writers), by which Nabokov deconstructs the world to which he himself belongs. Th e influence of the realistic one is obvious, not only with the presence of the elements relevant to the world, but also in the absence that results from it: the poet’s daughter, whose death starts the writing of the poem and a while chain of eventns is a little present - she is plump, not very pretty and too sensitive, completely below the basic requirements of the time of narration that she belongs.
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