Original scientific paper
Polemical Dialogue with Patriarchal Tradition in the Collection of Poems Eternal and Sacred by Elisaveta Bagryana
Marijana Bijelić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
In this article the collection of poems Eternal and Sacred by Elisaveta Bagryana is analyzed from the point of view of the theory of intertextuality and citation in its diachronical aspect, i. e. with regard to the problem of its place in the history of Bulgarian literature, since the model of “the great literary dialogue” is usually associated with avant-garde literature, more precisely with acmeism. Eternal and Sacred conceives a polemical dialogue with the two great patriarchal traditions the new Bulgarian literature and culture are built on: the one of the Bible and Judeo-Christianity and the other of Bulgarian folklore. Centering the mystified female in opposition to the traditional dualism between the soul and the body, holiness and sin, the man and his culture on the one hand and the female nature on the other, Bagryana invents an alternative female concept of the sacred that is capable of transcending and uniting hierarchical oppositions of the traditional Christian culture, as well as that of Neoplatonic philosophy, which is the theoretical basis of Bulgarian symbolism. The collection also establishes a new historionomical model that evokes the mystified beginning associated with the ancient idea of Mother Earth while reinterpreting Judeo-Christian tradition together with its most important female characters as well as with the masculine God the Father. In that way it invokes and unites the two models of patriarchy criticism the ecofeminist movements will invent half a century later.
Keywords
gender; modernism; avant-garde; tradition; religion; folklore
Hrčak ID:
201778
URI
Publication date:
19.6.2018.
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