Naslov
Class and Liminality in Early 20th Century Literature: Urban Spaces and Bohemia in Tin Ujević’s Prose

Autori
Molvarec, Lana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
ECONOMY AND ART: WHY WE NEED THE HUMANTIES IN UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY

Mjesto i datum
Pariz, Francuska, 05.10.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Tin Ujević, bohemia, leisure, work, liminality, class

Sažetak
It is commonplace in biographies on Tin Ujević, Croatian poet from the first half of the 20th century, to highlight the importance of his years spent in Paris. These years in Paris certainly bolstered the popular image of Ujević as a bohemian and an accursed poet. Putting aside biographical readings of Ujević's 3 work, this presentation aims to establish a link between public spaces, third or liminal spaces, social class and the fictional figure of an author who is in a perpetual process of construction through various discourse practices. Urban space is of utmost importance for the fluidity of that subject's identity and his psychological nomadism centers around time spent in a bar. The bar is also important because it represents a liminal space between work and leisure and it inspires the subject to make art despite of the usual perception that it is a place of idleness. The subject questions class relations while deconstructing bourgeois myths about la bohѐme, rethinking proletarian revolution by finding a utopian potential in the city streets, and finally by establishing a beggar found at the door of an inn as the paradigmatic model for the liminal identity of a poet.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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