ПРИЛОГ ИСТОРИЈСКОЈ ПОЕТИЦИ ГОРСКОГ ВИЈЕНЦА

Abstract

Gorski vijenac (pronounced viyenatz; Mountain Wreath) is taken to be a complex result of immanent evolutionary tendencies and of creative innovation, which is reflected in the synchronous unity of diachronically linked factors. The previous research demonstrated the manifold connections of this literary work with the folklore tradition and with the European and Serbian literary context. In this paper, we point out the elements of esthetics by analogy (spirit vs. Nature), transformed by means of tropes and other stylistic devices into ethical aspects of existence. In the same tradition, we particularly point out the signs of the poetics/esthetics of Romanticism, at several levels. Gorski vijenac is simultaneously built up from forms and motives that will become one of the bases for the folklore model of story-telling, subsequently to be transformed in the prose of S. M. Ljubiša, S. Matavulj, and I. Andric; as a whole, Gorski vijenac is characterized by a high degree of figurativeness, internal dispersiveness (openness) and outer closedness, permanent tension between the poetics of fragments and the poetics of a large form (being subordinated to one plot-line), thought and story, in the spirit of Schlegel’s ideal of Romanticist poetry.