Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music)
In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in Prodanović's novel about the war in former Yu...
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| description | In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in Prodanović's novel about the war in former Yugoslavia. The text conveys the reality of the conflict by relating it through events and characters located in prior media constructions. The historical, documentary, mythic, and fictional sources focus on the signifying systems which drag the war into the horizon of expectations of those who were not there, closing the gap between reality and representation, life and art. |
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| spelling | nottingham-308942020-05-04T20:19:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30894/ Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) Norris, David A. In the narrative of a mass conflict, the human experience of its effects may be subsumed into the rationalizing contours of history, or they may fall completely outside our comprehension. This article examines the intertextual strategies employed in Prodanović's novel about the war in former Yugoslavia. The text conveys the reality of the conflict by relating it through events and characters located in prior media constructions. The historical, documentary, mythic, and fictional sources focus on the signifying systems which drag the war into the horizon of expectations of those who were not there, closing the gap between reality and representation, life and art. Modern Humanities Research Association 2013-04 Article PeerReviewed Norris, David A. (2013) Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music). Modern Language Review, 108 (2). pp. 597-618. ISSN 0026-7937 Serbian literature representations of war intertextuality http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0597 doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0597 doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0597 |
| spellingShingle | Serbian literature representations of war intertextuality Norris, David A. Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title | Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title_full | Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title_fullStr | Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title_short | Writing about war: making sense of the absurd in Mileta Prodanović's novel Pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (Dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| title_sort | writing about war: making sense of the absurd in mileta prodanović's novel pleši, čudovište, na moju nežnu muziku (dance, you monster, to my soft music) |
| topic | Serbian literature representations of war intertextuality |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30894/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30894/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30894/ |