dc.description | The research topic of this PhD thesis is the complete works of
a contemporary Serbian poet Novica Tadic (1949-2011). The matter
regards the poetry which was being written during the last quarter of
the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, on the
boundary between the high modernism and postmodernism, and
which, regardless of the eager reception of the literary critics, didn’t
receive a comprehensive monograph after the poet’s death. The
objective of our work is to evince the most important poetic
characteristics of Tadic’s works and determine their place, role and
significance in the history of the contemporary Serbian literature.
To present Tadic’s poetry and poetics, we use the
methodological pluralism, by taking a poststructural stance about the
cross-genre use of theories, in order to achieve as elaborate
interpretations of the texts as possible. A special attention is paid to
the process of carnevalization, the grotesque as an aesthetic category,
irony and parody. By describing the constituents of Tadic’s poetic
world, we are determined to pinpoint the dominating problem of the
origin of evil, and the feelings of fear and dread as the only aspects of
the visible emotionality.
Таdic’s poetic system, based on the ambivalence principles,
caused the greatest turmoil precisely at the question of religiousness,
where a separate field of problematics was created. Therefore, we
allude to the dual origin of religious concepts and ideas – the
Orthodox Christian theology and the Gnostic/Bogomil teachings.
From the given standpoint we explain, as well, the problem of
coherence in this poetic work, the parallel fascination by the demonic
world and the presence of the penitent and deprecatory tone, thus
asserting Tadic as a posmodernist and isolating the fragmentariness,
polyphonicness and ambivalence as the key poetic settings which
annihilate the idea of modernist Wholeness and Truth.
With this research we have started not only the revalorization
of Tadic’s creativity, but also the issue of poetics of the Serbian
poetry at the turn of 20th century, that is, the issue of relation between
modernism and postmodernism, with which we have created the
possibility of a literary-historic reflection on the other poetic texts at
the age of changing of poetic paradigms. | en |