Modernist Features in Ksenija Atanasijević’s Philosophical Fragments and Essays Cover Image

Modernističke odlike u filozofskim fragmentima i esejima Ksenije Atanasijević
Modernist Features in Ksenija Atanasijević’s Philosophical Fragments and Essays

Author(s): Nađa Bobičić
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: Ksenija Atanasijević; modernist poetics; Virginia Woolf

Summary/Abstract: Much of the published work of the early 20th century philosopher Ksenija Atanasijević possesses many literary and artistic features. Th is paper analyses the literary characteristics of Ksenija Atanasijević’s essays, focusing on their modernist poetics and techniques. Th ese include form and fragmentarity, the dissolution of identity with its unchangeable core, time and the structures of consciousness. In the fi nal part of the paper, Ksenija Atanasijević’s essay “An Eye for an Eye... Regarding Hitler’s Persecution of Jews” is analysed in comparison to Virginia Woolf ’s essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 51-64
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian