The Shield of Achilles: Journal of the Humanities

Međunarodni kongres slavista (Pariz, 2025)

2025-12-02T17:01:08+01:00

No abstract.

Marković, Saša, Nacionalno bez odijuma: pogled bez pretenzija. Knjiga 4

2025-12-02T22:27:31+01:00

No abstract.

Dalibor Todorović, Etnografsko nasleđe Raške: igre, pesme, obredi i nošnja

2025-12-02T22:32:09+01:00

Bez apstrakta.

Seeing Through Peasant Eyes: Patrick Joyce, Remembering Peasants: a Personal History of a Vanished World

2025-12-02T22:37:39+01:00

No abstract.

Srpske epsko-lirske pesme na astalski glas

2025-12-02T22:41:16+01:00

Без апстракта.

U kretanju između napisanog i pročitanog: tekst kao ogledalo i zagonetka

2025-12-02T22:45:36+01:00

Без апстракта.

The fight in Velika Hoča in 1905 and its consequences

2025-12-02T15:57:52+01:00

The Serbian Chetnik Organization established its network in the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia during 1903 1904. Following the failed attempt in the autumn of 1904 to reach an agreement with the Internal Macedonian-Odrin Revolutionary Organization on coordinated action in Macedonia, and in anticipation of open conflict, the Serbian Chetnik Organization intensified its activities. These primarily included the arming of villages that had declared themselves Serbian and the dispatching of armed detachments into the Vilayet of Manastir.

In the spring of 1905, two attempts to transfer detachments and weapons from the Serbian border and the Kumanovo region toward the Vardar River were unsuccessful. The first failed after the defeat of a Serbian company near the village of Tabanovce, while the second, despite the successful engagement of several Serbian detachments against Ottoman troops near the village of Čelopeka, was likewise unable to achieve its objective. The increased concentration of Ottoman military forces along the border with Serbia, particularly in the Kumanovo area, necessitated a change of strategy. Consequently, a detachment of seven Chetniks, under the command of Savatije Milošević and Lazar Kujundžić, attempted to take an alternative route through the ethnically mixed Serbian-Albanian areas of the Vilayet of Kosovo, with the intention of reaching the vicinity of Tetovo and subsequently advancing toward Kičevo in the Vilayet of Manastir.

The detachment was discovered in the village of Velika Hoča, where it was compelled to engage in combat. In the ensuing clash, the company was completely annihilated. The consequences of this event were profound: the Serbian population of Orahovac, the native town of Duke Lazar Kujundžić, was subjected to violent reprisals by local Albanian groups both immediately after the encounter and in the years that followed. These hostilities placed the Serbian community under constant pressure and nearly resulted in the complete exodus of Serbs from Orahovac.

Memento mori: Postmortem Photography in the Pannonian Rusyn Community

2025-12-02T16:21:22+01:00

Фотографија, као нови визуелни код, изменила је начин на који посматрамо свет и границе онога што сматрамо дозвољеним да видимо. У том оквиру, овај рад истражује постмортем фотографију панонских Русина у Руском Крстуру почетком XX века, показујући како је ова пракса обликовала локалне визуелне и културне представе о смрти. Анализа открива специфичне моделе памћења и начине визуализације покојника који су били карактеристични за заједницу.

Biopolitics and societies of control: examples from epidemiology and technocracy

2025-12-02T16:33:13+01:00

Biopolitics, in general terms and definitions, refers to mechanisms of control applied over entire populations, including the regulation of births and deaths, population reproduction and fertility, as well as the political application of bioethics and the socio-political consequences of the biotechnological revolution on both society and individual bodies. In this article, we examine biopolitics through two distinct social phenomena: the first is epidemiological, while the second can be described as a system of technocratic control. Both illustrate how biopolitical practices are implemented. The inadequate response of the US government to the first wave of AIDS in the 1980s can be interpreted from a biopolitical perspective, as an attempt to address an emerging public health crisis. Another example is the Chinese state social credit system, which is often associated with dictatorship and population control, regulating citizens' lifestyles, needs, and habits through collected data and algorithmic analysis. These phenomena demonstrate that the application of biopolitical methods, adapted to the technological capabilities of their time, enables states, official institutions, corporations, multinational companies, and other centers of power to pursue their interests - both economic, such as cost- saving and profit-making, and social, such as addressing the needs of marginalized groups.

Dragoljub Pavlović: Leopold Ranke (Povodom stogodišnjice rođenja njegovog)

2025-12-02T16:44:30+01:00

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Dragoljub Pavlović: Hajnrih fon Zibel. Rođen 2. decembra 1817 u Dizeldorfu, umro 1. avgusta 1895 u Marburgu

2025-12-02T16:52:16+01:00

No abstract.

O nekim uticajima u Bugarskoj baraci: intervju sa Milisavom Savićem

2025-12-02T16:55:55+01:00

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Unlocking meaning: theoretical perspectives on the cognitive dimensions of metaphor from antiquity to modern cognitive linguistics

2025-11-30T23:51:21+01:00

The text explores how metaphor has been understood across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophical perspectives. Through this theoretical review, it reveals how the cognitive functions and character of metaphor have gradually been uncovered. Ancient philosophers primarily regarded metaphor as a linguistic phenomenon, observing its significance in cognitive processes such as teaching and persuasion. Modern philosophy, through thinkers like I. A. Richards, Max Black, Paul Ricoeur, and other influential 20th-century philosophers, reexamined these ancient theories. They concluded that metaphor operates on a far more comprehensive level than mere language; it emerges from the interaction of thoughts and represents an act of mental creativity. Building upon these insights, modern cognitive linguists further developed the idea that metaphor is fundamentally rooted in cognition and is manifested in linguistic expressions. In the third part of the paper, dedicated to cognitivist insights into metaphors, the definition, structure, peculiarities, elaboration, application, and identification of metaphors are presented. Cognitive Metaphor Theory defines metaphor as the understanding of one concept or conceptual domain through the lens of another. In this view, metaphor serves as both a means and a structure for our understanding of the world it is essential, constitutive, and actively employed in everyday thinking and communication. Consequently, metaphor plays a crucial role in shaping experience and comprehension. Consequently, studying metaphors within oral and written discourse allows us to uncover the underlying thought processes and semantic dimensions embedded in them. Due to its insights into the cognitive foundations and essence of metaphor, as well as the analytical tools it provides for analyzing conceptual metaphors, the cognitive theory of metaphor has proven highly productive. Understanding metaphor through this cognitive lens enriches our comprehension of communication, revealing the deep interconnectedness between thought, language, and our perception of reality. It enables us to interpret metaphor not merely as a semantic structure but also as a comprehensive hermeneutical key for understanding the meaning and purpose of discourse in which it appears. Ultimately, by recognizing that metaphor is a powerful tool for understanding, expressing, sharing, and interpreting experience, its significance for our individual and collective existence is both illuminated and amplified.

Historical and poetic implications of spiritist discourse and disintegration of realism in 19th century Serbian literature

2025-12-01T22:38:43+01:00

This paper examines the historical and poetic implications of spiritist discourse in Serbian literature of the second half of the 19th century, focusing particularly on its role in the disintegration of realist poetics. Through the analysis of that literature of this period functions not merely as a reflection of social tendencies but as a space where philosophical, scientific, and spiritual questions intersect. Employing hermeneutic methodology, the paper approaches spiritism in a broader context ‒ both cultural and historical. Within this context, literature opens towards explorations of psychological, parapsychological, and ontological dimensions. Special emphasis is placed on the shifting boundaries of the knowable and the empirically grounded. Narrative space expands from rural to urban settings and into cosmic realms. The analysis identifies two dominant discursive lines. The first is socially engaged and progressive, expressed through evolutionary thought, interest in civil rights and reform, often grounded in anti-clerical perspectives. The second is concerned with the dialectic of material and immaterial reality, the limits of human cognition, and the epistemological crisis rooted in scepticism towards positivist and rationalist models of knowledge. Translations and the emergence of spiritualist journals point to a sophisticated intellectual climate that embraced the integration of scientific and esoteric knowledge systems. The study concludes that spiritism operates not merely as a theme or motif but as a transformative mechanism that reshapes literary expression and poetical orientation. Spiritist discourse, therefore, proves essential to the poetic evolution of 19th century Serbian literature.

Ideology and identity in the novel Čizmaši by Dragoslav Mihailović

2025-12-01T23:30:34+01:00

This paper explores the linguistic and stylistic features of male speech in the novel the language used by male characters, with particular attention given to the use of slang, vulgarisms, and profanity. These elements are examined as tools of characterization and as means of expressing social background, emotional states, and resistance within the oppressive post-war Yugoslav context. The study highlights how the author employs authentic male speech patterns to enhance the realism of the narrative and to portray the psychological and societal struggles of individuals facing political repression. Ultimately, the paper underscores the importance of language in the construction of masculine identity and in the broader depiction of historical and cultural realities. the use of obscene and vulgar words, more precisely expressive vocabulary with a high degree of negative expressiveness, as well as argot, jargon, but also lexical fund characteristic of the professions of soldiers, miners, boxing terminology, etc. Deictic (referential) words are a characteristic replacement, especially for lexemes that denote some kind of social taboo, and by avoiding naming a phenomenon, its invocation in reality is avoided. Terminological vocabulary is not otherwise characteristic of the literary and artistic func s work, terms become a means of additional stylistic nuance, as their expressive value lies in the touch of basic and contextual meaning. The degree of literary stylization is greater in relation to dialectal language, sociolects and jargon. The use of each of the idiolects is carried out tendentiously, taking into account the stylistic impression of escribes the real fates of so-called ordinary people who were the subject of realistic creators, the way he does this through linguistic shaping, with newly found words, is utterly innovative.

"Adjusting the scope" : on the narrative strategy of feminist retellings and their cultural connotations

2025-12-01T23:45:34+01:00

This paper examines the phenomenon of feminist retellings of classical Greek myths, with a particular focus on contemporary novels that use this narrative strategy to critique traditional representations of women, while also problematizing the (heteronormative) politics of masculinity and sexuality in general. The primary aim is to explore how and with what implications female and queer male voices and experiences are granted agency within narratives where they have historically been marginalized. The analysis is centered on three novels: The Song of Achilles (2011) by Madeline Miller, The Silence of the Girls (2018) by Pat Barker, and Stone Blind (2022) by Natalie Haynes. These works are read as literary interventions that engage with the Western canon by reimagining mythological content from feminist and, at times, queer perspectives. Methodologically, the research relies on narrative analysis, particularly drawing on the theoretical framework of Porter Abbott. Special attention is given to the role of the narrator, interpretative tensions, and the multiplicity of perspectives within a single narrative structure. Through close reading, the paper identifies how these texts reassign narrative authority to previously silenced characters and question the ideological foundations of the myths they rework. The analysis also considers the intersections of feminist and queer theory in representing gender, especially in relation to the rearticulation of the Trojan myth and its characters. One of the key findings of the study is that feminist retellings function not merely as acts of revision but as culturally significant re-narrativizations that disrupt androcentric epistemologies embedded in canonical literature. By shifting the narrative focus, these novels subvert the traditionally glorified heroism of male protagonists and instead center experiences of trauma, resistance, and survival among female and queer characters. In doing so, they problematize the authority of myth and propose alternative frameworks of memory and meaning. Ultimately, the paper argues that such retellings are part of a broader cultural process of reevaluating literary heritage. They perform both a literary and ideological reorientation, reconfiguring the boundaries of voice, perspective, and historical legitimacy. These texts serve not only as reinterpretations of ancient myths but also as contemporary commentaries on gender, power, and the politics of storytelling. As such, feminist retellings emerge as a form of narrative agency and a mode of cultural critique with lasting relevance within the political realm.