Mnogostruka lica kanona: kaнoн ili kanoni (mnoštvo pitanja sa odgovorima)
Multiple faces of canon: kaнoн or kanoni (a multitude of questions with answers)

Summary/Abstract: The theme of this issue of Sarajevo Notebook is The National Literary Canon. Within the framework of this thematic block, literary theorists and critics from the former Yugoslavia try to analyse the concept of national literary canon and its implications in the post-Yugoslav reality of the Balkans. In doing so they focus their attention on the basic theoretical principles for determining the proper criteria for the identification of canonical writers and on the impact of dominant ideologies and political power centres on the formation of national canons in literature. Miško Šuvaković, a theorist from Serbia and Montenegro, speaks about the division into “small” and “big” literatures, and the multiple mechanisms of canon formation, pointing to the main characteristics, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the Serb literary canon.

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