Original scientific paper
ANDROGYNOUS TRAVEL FROM MIRE TO VIS
Sanja Knežević
orcid.org/0000-0003-0582-4298
; University of Zadar
Abstract
In Croatian literature the term curser, destroyer of social and literary
cannons is imminent for Janko Polić Kamov. That is the artist who could
not cope with narrow-minded petty-bourgeois society which was being
made for centuries by the “male” enlightening culture. Therefore, if
avant-gardists, negating artistic cannon of modern-history art, prepared
the field for feminism, then it can be said that Janko Polić Kamov –
young Croatian intellectual – was the first one who did that. Problems of
female in Kamov’s literary work (especially in the novel Isušena Kaljuža
/ The Dried Out Mire) are in that sense foundation of this paper. Namely,
objectifying female at the first sight Polić would be characterized as antifeminist
figure, but he achieved completely the opposite thing by avantgarde
inverting of values. In his psychoanalytical traveling from the bottom
to Apollonian mire he achieved androgynous balance.
Keywords
Janko Polić Kamov; The Dried Out Mire; avant-garde; decadence; feminism
Hrčak ID:
228300
URI
Publication date:
11.12.2012.
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