THE THEME OF THE POOR IN SERBIAN AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WORKS OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND BORISAV STANKOVIĆ

Authors : Ljiljana BAJI

Pages : 9-21

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Publication Date : 2016-01-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This work explores the theme of the poor in Serbian and Russian literature through a comparative approach to the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Borisav Stanković. The author considers the generic conventions and traditional, religious, ethical, and social elements of the literary picture of the world of the poor in Dostoevsky and mendicants in Stanković, and examines their intertextual relation
Keywords : poor folk, beggars, Dostoevsky, Stanković, tradition, intertextuality