Review article
https://doi.org/10.15291/csi.4803
Poetics and Philosophy of Creation in the Works of Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša
Miodarka Tepavčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-8771-0640
; University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Abstract
The multifaceted literary work of Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša,
with its complex structure, universality of themes, intricacy
of form, and semantic depth of language, continues to raise
essential questions about humanity and the world, inviting
diverse interpretations. This is precisely one of the reasons
for Ljubiša’s enduring relevance in the past, present, and
also the future. In this paper, we examine, on the one hand,
Ljubiša’s reflections on art and the philosophy of creation,
and, on the other, by the principles of phenomenological
aesthetics, we interpret the literary text as a complex creation
wherein the most profound questions about the meaning
of human existence are rooted in its layers. Ljubiša seeks
to address fundamental anthropological questions through
literary language, turning his works into a grand narrative
about humanity. Over the course of his fifty-six-year life and
career, Ljubiša left behind a significant body of work, and
his literary development right up until the 1870s followed
a series of fluctuations, in both the intensity and quality of
his literary output, which arose as a consequence of his maturing
as a writer who had long sought the right mode of
expression and subject matter for his creative and eruptive
temperament. By paving the way for new directions in literary
development, Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša emerges as a writer
of distinct artistic self-awareness, who truly believes in
the mission of literary art as a repository of national energy.
Through the vernacular character of the language in which
he wrote, as well as its poetic nature, his work powerfully
demonstrated the vitality and dynamism of expression of his
literary language. Ljubiša’s language workshop conceals not
only some important insights into philosophical existence,
but also insights into the philosophy of creation. In line with
the demands of ethics, aesthetics, and poetics, as well as of
the fundamental ideas of the epoch in which he wrote, Ljubiša
advocated for the fact that the general and the individual,
the past and the present, the textual and the extratextual content
of a literary work are interwoven by cause and effect.
Keywords
aesthetics; art; philosophy; poetics; Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša
Hrčak ID:
334056
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Publication date:
25.7.2025.
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