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    Езопова басна код Доситеја Обрадовића

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    The potential and intrinsic polysemy of the esopic fable made a very flexible means of lively expression over the centuries, as evidenced by the fortune it enjoyed in the traditions of many countries: so was in the literature of the southern Slavs, full of evidences the book tries to bring to light. Bearing multiple messages and meanings, a banner of other literary genres, the classical fable lived an unusual flourishing in the eighteenth century, thanks to its versatility and its didactic-didascalic functions. From the categories of the classical tradition Obradović fable comes out revived and renewed: its centrality, in the author's production, is gathered by the youth writings in which few and essential features already highlight all the didactic and illustrative potentialities: the Basne collection becomes the privileged means of entrusting the message and communicating with a wide audience, a space in which the author can disclose himself to the ideas of the Age of the Enlightenment

    A proposito di alcune citazioni della “Vita di Feodosij”

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    The present work investigates the structure and the process of adaptation of some scriptural references from the New Testament in the Life of Feodosij Pečerskij. In the vast scriptural repertoire the loci chosen for the analysis gather around a few of the numerous themes, milestones of the monk’s spiritual life. Among the forms of citations and references, moreover, some similitudes and analogies were considered, in which, in addition to the persistent semantic and linguistic connections with the source text, we looked at the user and the possible intentions of the author in the process of building the exemplum

    Cicerone, Seneca, Giovenale in un saggio sul destino umano.

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    The present work intends to investigate the chapter on the old age of Blago Cara Radovana, one of Jovan Ducˇic ́ proses (1926) where the classical spiritual heritage merges into the meditations of a modern man: never as in this work the Serbian writer cites so explicitly his sources: Cicero with the Cato Maior dialogue De Senectute, the XII Letter to Lucilius by Seneca, the X Satire by Juvenal. The contribution attempts to compare some serbian and latin excerpts, echoed not slavishly, but rielaborated by the author through simplifying and omitting, in order to clarify even better his own positions, and coming to conclusions, sometimes discordant from his latin models. The examples of the ancient world, harbingers of a lasting knowledge, are here used as a traditional rhetorical tool, giving to his reasoning a plastic-figurative effect

    Un'incursione nel thriller: Poslednja knjiga di Zoran Živković

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    The contribution will analyze some of the original features of Poslednja Knjiga (The last book) by Zoran Živković, who does not follow the strict tradition of crime - novels, on the contrary, wishing to transcend reality, the writer overcomes the restrictions of logic and scientifically proved, in order to venture into dimension of the imagery, surreal, dreamy. Živković sets his crime story in a library in Belgrade: inspector Dejan Lukić is entrusted with the case of mysterious deaths, but the investigation, with dramatic turns of events, ends up in a complete nonsense. The truth does not lie in the detection of the murderer (the last book), it is elsewhere, in the mind of the almighty creator - the Author himself, who manipulates the ephemeral lives of his characters. Rich in meta-crime elements, the crime story reveals the complex interaction between the writer's and his creatures' universe

    „Teško nama ženama [...]”: la questione femminile in „Tergovci”

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    The relation between fathers and children is one of the ideological points of the play chosen by E. Janković, according to the parameters of a bourgeois and mercantile society looking at a useful and modern education and instruction, organic to the needs of the community. The pedagogical commitment of the author from Novi Sad could not ignore some considerations on the key role played by women in the organization of society as a girl, wife and mother, that was to be redefined on the basis of new demands during the 18th century. Goldoni tried to deal with the debate on female education thanks to the lively confrontation between Giannina and Beatrice, being the first model of educated and learned woman, and the latter, prototype of domestic virtue modeled on ancient customs. Behind the comparison between the two figures, Goldoni couldn’t neglect a burning issue of the Enlightment between progressive openness and conservative positions concerning the female question. The work aims at analyzing the two characters in a dialogic interaction that seems to reveal, in the Italian text, a dialectic of opposing models, shaped by Janković in ambivalent and complementary forms. The choice made by Janković, to translate a comedy where the woman is revaluated, by presenting her as main character and by focusing on the problem of her education and instruction, is one of the values of his enlightened program
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