FUNCTION AND MEANING OF FEMININITY IN THE PLAYS THE MASK, VUČJAK AND THE SPRING RETURNS Cover Image

ФУНКЦИЈА И ЗНАЧЕЊЕ ФЕМИНИНОСТИ У ДРАМАМА МАСКА, ВУЧЈАК И ПРОЛЕЋЕ СЕ ВРАЋА
FUNCTION AND MEANING OF FEMININITY IN THE PLAYS THE MASK, VUČJAK AND THE SPRING RETURNS

Author(s): Jelena I. Marinkov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: femininity; play; expressionism; counterpart; physicality; masculinity; female gender;

Summary/Abstract: Examples of male representation of female characters, especially those subversive in relation to the dominant, patriarchal code in literature, can also be encouraging to explore the impact of affirmative ''masculine'' images of women on the formation of ''femalе'' literature. Through the word of male authors, women still get their voice, and that is considered great progress in the situation of the centuries-old social, economic, moral and cultural subordination of women. To study the way women are represented in the literary works of male authors at the time of the first indication of the appearance of a female letter as the poetics of transposing female sensibilities and the experience beyond the canon masculinity can be very significant, moreover, the generic research and poetics should begin with the literary works of male authors, since such generic research avoids constant emphasis and results in the annihilation of inequality, which is constantly being emphasized, and thus it returns to its initial position. By introducing a different perspective, the concept of the patriarchate is undermined, from the aspect of the ideologically dominant position. In this context, the diverse representations of the female character in Miloš Crnjanski’s play The Mask, Miroslav Krleža’s play Vučjak, and Dušan Vasiljev’s play The Spring Returns are of particular significance – it is possible, by interpretation, to discover representative examples of affirmative conceptualization of women in these plays.

  • Issue Year: 9/2019
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 131-148
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian