Intermediality of the Serbian novel of the end of the XX ‒ early XXI century

Abstract

The relevance of the analysis is due to the fact that the poetics of literary trends, trends and styles of the late XX – early XXI century characterized by a variety of implementation methods. Intermediate is considered one of its modes. The modern history of the art of words in Serbia separately demonstrates a convincing statement of “new genre meanings of an expressed combined character.” Analytical coverage of the experience of the intermediate format of literary actualization of the poetics of fine art is the purpose of this article. The novelty of the presented material lies in the precedent systematization of individual manifestations of intermediality in the discourse of the Serbian novel. The study is
 based on the productivity of the method of structural analysis in combination with the culture-semiotic approach. In the novels by D. Kish “Klepsidra”, S. Basara “Fama about cyclists”, M. Pavich “Khazar Dictionary”, “Second Body” there is a separate form of intermediality, which is associated with formal-visual inclusion of graphic fragments in the space of prose text. Reproductions, integrated by the artists into their works, testify to the precedents of form and sense actualization according to the principle of psychologization of the visual image, which allows making a more detailed, virtuosic depiction of emotional movements of iconic characters, their spiritual evolution. In conclusion, it should be admitted that in images that are tangent to the intermedia field or appear in it are brought to the constructive level of worldview concepts established in postmodern philosophy. Thus, in the novels of well-known Serbian writers there is a separate precedent of formal and semantic activation of the expressive means of fine arts, in particular the genre of reproduction in the format of an intermedia canon. And its originality and meaning-creating inspiration in outlining the humanistic perspective testifies to the essential enrichment of the poetic discourse of the contemporary Serbian novel.