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The Forms of Serbian-Byzantine Heritage in Post-War Modernism

(Vasko Popa, Miodrag Pavlović, Ljubomir Simović, Ivan V. Lalić)

Summary/Abstract: This paper exhibits a systematization of the forms that Serbian-Byzantine heritage took in the poetry of Vasko Popa, Miodrag Pavlović, Ljubomir Simović and Ivan V. Lalić. We designated the creative transformations of that heritage in modern poetry by new poetic categories: lyrical religiosity, internal transcendence of poetry, scribe’s (dijak’s) poetics, lyrical theodicy. Thus we encompassed the complexity of medieval themes, determined by the individual poetics of different poets, and built them into poetic categories common to old Serbian literature and Modernist classics. We attempted to show the constancy of form and the similarity of spiritual experiences that caused the appearance of Serbian-Byzantine heritage in the poetry of post-war modernism, i.e. to point towards a mutual deep kinship among the selected poets on one side and their spiritual kinship with the (often anonymous) medieval Serbian writers. The described poetic forms and constituted new poetic categories we derived from modern lyrical poetics represent an attempt to base a problem approach to Serbian-Byzantine heritage and hint a possibility of its immanent exploration in the opuses of other poets in the context of Serbian literature after World War II.

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