„Иво Сенковић и Ага од Рибника” – између бајковне структуре и херојске семантике
“Ivo Senković and Aga of Ribnik” – between a Fairy-Tale Structure and Heroic Semantics

Author(s): Zoja S. Karanović
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the poem “Ivo Senković and Aga of Ribnik” (Serbian Folk Poems III, no. 56), which is connected to the international theme of a duel between an inexperienced hero and a seasoned fighter, and whose content is placed within the framework of the struggle of the uskoks [rebels, guerrilla-type fighters] of Senj against the Turks, while actually being the hero’s very first duel, which can be brought into connection with the quest of a fairy-tale hero. In other words, the unfolding of the plot manifests a morphological equivalence between this heroic poem and a fairy tale, evidencing their common genetic origins, overlapping and layering, even though in the poem there is a great deal of heroic resemantisation of the fairy-tale sujet, which should be evident from a detailed analysis of the poem.

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