Umetnička slika grada u prozi srpskog realizma

Abstract

Doctoral thesis The artistic image of the city in the prose of Serbian realism has a chrono tope of the city, town and borough as a subject of its studying, in the prose of Serbian realism, visibly marginalized in literary criticism and literary history. Illuminating the marginalized artistic image of the city, showing that urban prose carries an artistic image of the city's diachronical development of city/town, first of all in a comparative relationship with the rural environment, as well as the existence of a relationship and condition of the artistic image of life in the city in historical, social political and social circumstances is a primary goal of scientific research. Researching material is primarily made up of prose: Jakov Ignjatović, Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša, Milovan Glišić, Janko Veselinović, Laza Lazarević, Stevan Sremac, Simo Matavulj, Svetolik Ranković, Radoje Domanović, Petar Kočić, Ivo Ćipiko as well as Borisav Stanković, Ilija I. Vukićević and Milorad Popović Šapčanin. The artistic image of private live is interpreted using analytical-synthetic method, as well as a comparative method through cultural models and the city system of the moral values, the theme of education, the topos of the family, charsia, cafes, government and its representatives, the village-city relations and the theme of the city peripherals. The theme is also explored through problems of characteristic characters that significantly contribute to the overall artistic image of private city life. Also, the social historical and social economic background of the artistic images of private life is analyzed. Based on an examination of the narrative discourse of „city prose“, it is shown that the private life of the city plays an important role in shaping the entire poetic-aesthetic artistic image of the life of realism, and in the realization of a new synthesis of the thematic field in the writings of the writers of this era. It is shown that, under the influence of social economic turmoil, the space of the city in the literary creation of the epoch of Serbian realism imposed itself as a place of frequent opposition of the past and present, the tradition and European, feudalism and capitalism, people and events, natives and foreigners. Also, there is a conclusion about the insignificant reciprocity between the artistic and contemporary image of the city, that is, the influence of artistic reality on the contemporary experience and its transformation, as well as the insignificant influence of the artistic experience on the design of the contemporary image.