THE CHANGE OF POETIC PARADIGMS IN THE SERBIAN LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY: THE NATIONAL AND THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

The purpose of this project is to conduct research into and provide a description of, by way of team work and internal approach, the changes of poetic paradigms that occurred, first of all, in two tumultuous periods of Serbian literature: the avant-garde period (1919-1934) and the period of modernism following the Second World War. Both periods are characterised by an intense dialogue with European culture, and it is thus necessary to review the depth and the value of the changes and innovations within national literature; it is also necessary, however, to explain them in a comparative context as well. In this way, the project, in the nature of things, fits in with the priorities envisaged by this competition: describing the national identity of Serbian literature and culture, and its integration within the framework of European literature and culture. The changes in the sphere of genre, form, verse, stanza and world-view occurred in parallel flows and at the same time in Serbian and European, so that stylistic trends, that is formations or “movements” (dadaism, expressionism, cubofuturism, surrealism, zenithism...) occurred simultaneously. The focus of the team research will be on poetry, while the poetics of prose and drama will be studied within the framework of carefully selected and targeted master and doctoral theses. A succession of thematic monograph-type collections of papers will encompass the poetics of the most important poets not researched until now.