ARHETIPSKI BOL ŽENE NASUPROT MUŠKOG SHVATANJA HEROIZMA
ARCHETYPAL PAIN OF WOMAN AS OPPOSED TO MASCULINE UNDERSTANDING OF HEROISM

Summary/Abstract: Skender Kulenović, by creating the poem Stojanka majka Knežopoljka,in fact created a poem about eternal sorrow and at the same time a specific alogism of life and death. If heroism was, since the ancient times, understood as devotion to an idea and sacrificing for it, the question arises whether the sorrow of woman in turmoil of war loses or wins a battle according to understanding of heroism. If it wins it, is it due to the fact that the woman is carrier of regeneration or the pain of woman is stronger than heroism in quantitative sense of the word, as being beyond comparison. The elements of tužbalica together with anacreontic segments dealing with day-to-day man’s existence together in a poem constitute an exquisite apotheosis to life and the woman as a regenerator of same. It is these elements, recognizable since the earliest traces of literary creation, that put S. Kulenović among timeless writers, beyond any classification.

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