An Ecocritical Approach to Đuro Sudeta’s Mor-The Original Werewolf Legend

• Authors: Domagoj Brozović

Abstracts

EN

This paper outlines the main reading strategies of ecocriticism. Its main theoretical interest lies not in the pure extraction of literary motifs of Nature, but in the deconstruction of the diversity between Nature and Culture, representing Nature as the postmodern significant “Other” relating to contemporary environmental problems and thus exposing literary approaches in the past ( includingpostmodernism ) as anthropocentric. The main part of this paper focuses on the example of the application of ecocritical strategies in Đuro Sudeta’s modernist and impressionistic novella Mor, which leads to the suggestion of reforming conventional readings in traditional literary history.

Keywords

EN

Culture vs Nature; Đuro Sudeta; ecocriticism; environment; literary impressionism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 22
• Pages: 67-81

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Domagoj Brozović

• University of Zagreb

• https://orcid.org/0000000318937355

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2022.22.3

Biblioteka Nauki

15589979