Aleksandar Stević
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandar Stević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandar |
| FAMILY NAME | Stević |
| SIGNATURE | STEVIC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The King's College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5827-7748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Danilo Kiš and the uses of aestheticism in socialist Yugoslavia
This article examines the literary career of Yugoslav/Serbian writer Danilo Kiš (1935–1989) by focusing on his theoretical debts to nineteenth-century aestheticist thought. Kiš is an author usually associated with the representation of twentieth century’s great historical traumas, including both the Holocaust and the Gulag, and his work is routinely examined through the lens of what he himself termed ‘po-ethics’—a dual concern with literary form …
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Genre titled “Aestheticism Now!” explores the status of the aesthetic and of aestheticism within contemporary literary studies and introduces the individual articles. The place of aesthetic detachment within the context of literary studies remains contested. If the final decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a widespread skepticism toward the notion of the aesthetic—a skepticism as a…
The Rules of Misreading
While recent critics have made considerable efforts to “rethink the category of the aesthetic” (as Isobel Armstrong puts it), they have generally done so by trying to advance a positive case for the aesthetic and by seeking to demonstrate that such categories as aesthetic autonomy and disinterestedness need not be surrendered to reactionaries. In other words, they have sought to demonstrate that the aesthetic is compatible with progressive politi…
The Homological Imagination
For more than a century now, the desire for a political interpretation of literary form has persistently resurfaced in many seemingly unrelated corners of literary theory and critical practice: in the early work of Georg Lukács and in the literary sociology of Lucien Goldmann and Franco Moretti, in poststructuralist readings of modernist fiction, in Foucauldian interpretations of the realist novel, in feminist narratology of Susan Lanser and Roby…
The Genre of Disobedience
This article revisits the complex historical and methodological issues that surround the study of the Bildungsroman both within German literature and in a broader comparative context. It argues that the unusually narrow and well-defined circumstances of the Bildungsroman’s rise in eighteenth-century Germany contributed to the persistence of a normative and often-essentialist understanding of this genre. The article further identifies the limitati…
The Limits of Cosmopolitanism
"This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as En…
Convenient Cosmopolitanism
The specter of cosmopolitanism haunts Daniel Deronda . In a curious reversal of critical fortune, the novel condemned by many of its initial reviewers for dabbling into obscure mystical doctrines and for pontificating far too explicitly about the significance of narrow loyalties and local attachments has recently come to embody a scrupulous investigation of cosmopolitan ethics. The sources of this radical shift in the understanding of Daniel Dero…
The Tragedy of Fatherhood
Intimations of the Holocaust from the Recollections of Early Childhood
Nostalgia, we are told, is in the business of idealizing the past. Because nostalgia is routinely associated with the falsification and distortion of memory, any discussion about its role in Holocaust representation is fraught with ethical concerns. What purpose can nostalgic sentimentality serve in evoking the reality of the genocide? This essay argues that nostalgia's power to falsify, distort, and sentimentalize the past can be productively an…
Convenient Cosmopolitanism
The specter of cosmopolitanism haunts Daniel Deronda . In a curious reversal of critical fortune, the novel condemned by many of its initial reviewers for dabbling into obscure mystical doctrines and for pontificating far too explicitly about the significance of narrow loyalties and local attachments has recently come to embody a scrupulous investigation of cosmopolitan ethics. The sources of this radical shift in the understanding of Daniel Dero…
Intimations of the Holocaust from the Recollections of Early Childhood
Nostalgia, we are told, is in the business of idealizing the past. Because nostalgia is routinely associated with the falsification and distortion of memory, any discussion about its role in Holocaust representation is fraught with ethical concerns. What purpose can nostalgic sentimentality serve in evoking the reality of the genocide? This essay argues that nostalgia's power to falsify, distort, and sentimentalize the past can be productively an…
The Tragedy of Fatherhood
Convenient Cosmopolitanism
The specter of cosmopolitanism haunts Daniel Deronda . In a curious reversal of critical fortune, the novel condemned by many of its initial reviewers for dabbling into obscure mystical doctrines and for pontificating far too explicitly about the significance of narrow loyalties and local attachments has recently come to embody a scrupulous investigation of cosmopolitan ethics. The sources of this radical shift in the understanding of Daniel Dero…
The Limits of Cosmopolitanism
"This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as En…
The Genre of Disobedience
This article revisits the complex historical and methodological issues that surround the study of the Bildungsroman both within German literature and in a broader comparative context. It argues that the unusually narrow and well-defined circumstances of the Bildungsroman’s rise in eighteenth-century Germany contributed to the persistence of a normative and often-essentialist understanding of this genre. The article further identifies the limitati…
The Homological Imagination
For more than a century now, the desire for a political interpretation of literary form has persistently resurfaced in many seemingly unrelated corners of literary theory and critical practice: in the early work of Georg Lukács and in the literary sociology of Lucien Goldmann and Franco Moretti, in poststructuralist readings of modernist fiction, in Foucauldian interpretations of the realist novel, in feminist narratology of Susan Lanser and Roby…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Genre titled “Aestheticism Now!” explores the status of the aesthetic and of aestheticism within contemporary literary studies and introduces the individual articles. The place of aesthetic detachment within the context of literary studies remains contested. If the final decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a widespread skepticism toward the notion of the aesthetic—a skepticism as a…
The Rules of Misreading
While recent critics have made considerable efforts to “rethink the category of the aesthetic” (as Isobel Armstrong puts it), they have generally done so by trying to advance a positive case for the aesthetic and by seeking to demonstrate that such categories as aesthetic autonomy and disinterestedness need not be surrendered to reactionaries. In other words, they have sought to demonstrate that the aesthetic is compatible with progressive politi…
Danilo Kiš and the uses of aestheticism in socialist Yugoslavia
This article examines the literary career of Yugoslav/Serbian writer Danilo Kiš (1935–1989) by focusing on his theoretical debts to nineteenth-century aestheticist thought. Kiš is an author usually associated with the representation of twentieth century’s great historical traumas, including both the Holocaust and the Gulag, and his work is routinely examined through the lens of what he himself termed ‘po-ethics’—a dual concern with literary form …
Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works)