Summary
Tanja Popović: The Eastern Canon
The book The Eastern Canon by Tanja Popović - shows an interest in an insufficiently studied area, which is the problem of literary, linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Slavia orthodoxa groups. In the opening chapter of the book - "Eastern Canon and Literature of the New Age" - the author provides a broad and very detailed overview of the studies of the given issue so far - by Ricardo Picchio, Dimitrij Obolenski, Roman Jakobson, D.S. Likhačova, N. I. Tolstoy, V.M. Živova, J.M. Lotman, all the way to contemporary theorists R. Martti, S. Graciotti, G. Ziffer, B. A. Uspenski and many others. Added to this is a review of different researches created in post-structuralism, both philological and linguistic, as well as philosophical, ideological, social and psychological interpretations. A good theoretical and methodological framework was important as an introduction to further interpretations of literature. As texts where she will prove and verify all theories and assumptions, Tanja Popović chooses representative works of primarily Russian literature, the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Russian symbolists, modernists and avant-gardes, Bryusov, Blok, Harms, Bulgakov - connecting them with a wider European (ancient tradition) but also a Far Eastern context (Japanese novel). From a similar point of view, the works of Serbian literature are interpreted here, which in a spiritual, historical, and especially philological sense are connected with other literatures of Slavia orthodoxa.
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