Svetozar Koljević

Svetozar Koljević , Serbian Светозар Кољевић (born September 9, 1930 in Banja Luka , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † May 29, 2016 in Novi Sad , Serbia ), was a Serbian literary scholar. Koljević's original subject area was comparative literary studies, but in particular the history of English literature from ancient English literature through the Elizabethan epoch to modern times. In addition, he worked in his scientific and literary critical work in the areas of Serbo-Croatian literature as well as orally traditional folk song traditions in Serbo-Croatian epic poetry , for which he published a standard work in the Anglo-Saxon language area. His main work as editor was a 25-volume Moderna Srpska Prosa (Modern Serbian Prosa), the autograph of which he had given the Svjetlost publishing house in Sarajevo in 1992, but which was not published due to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Academic positions

Koljević was a permanent member of the Serbian Academy and from 2007 a member of the Presidium of the Serbian Academy. From 1971 to 1992 he was a professor at the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy, and from 1992 to 1995 in Novi Sad. From 2003 until his death, he held the position of Vice-President of the Communication Commission at the branch of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Novi Sad.

Career

Koljević completed his school days in Banja Luka, Belgrade and Požarevac. He finished high school in Banja Luka in 1949. He completed his English studies with English literary history and Yugoslav literary history in 1954 in Zagreb and Belgrade. 1955-1957 he was in England and defended his Magistrate in Cambridge in 1957. In 1959 he did his doctorate on Aldous Huxley at the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb ( Misaona i literarna pozadina Huxleyevih romana ideja ). 1958-1960 he was an assistant at the Philosophical Faculty Sarajevo, 1960-1966 lecturer there, 1966-1972 associate professor, since 1972 full professor for English literature. In 1963/64 Koljević directed postgraduate studies in English and Yugoslav literature at Indiana University , Bloomington . After his retirement in 1995, he taught English literature in Nikšić, Banjala Luka, Istočno Sarajevo and Belgrade.

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Particular international attention is given to Koljević's revised English edition of the literary-critical analysis of Serbo-Croatian heroic epic - The Epic in the making, first published in Yugoslavia in 1974 in Serbo-Croatian . It describes the essential aspects of the origin of the orally transmitted epic poetry among the southern Slavs of the Balkan Peninsula, their backgrounds in the socio-cultural patriarchal order, themes, symbolism and communication, as well as the influence of Vuk Karadžić's folk song collection on folk song research and literary reception in the Romantic era among the Poets from Central and Western Europe (Wolfgang Goethe, Jakob Grimm, Walter Scott, Prosper Mérimée, Talvj). He also wrote the foreword to the English translation of the heroic songs of Marko Kraljević by Anne Pennington and the former professor of poetry at Oxford Peter Levi.

Koljević also translated English literature into Serbo-Croatian ( AB Guthrie Junior , Henry James , Joyce Cary ) and Serbo-Croatian literature into English.

family

Svetozar's father was a wealthy businessman in Banja Luka. After Hitler's attack on Yugoslavia in 1941, he was interned by the pro-fascist Croatian Ustaša organization. After his release, he and his family fled to Belgrade. Svetozar's brother Nikola Koljević (1936-1997), a well-known Shakespeare scholar, was Vice President of the Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. He died on January 25, 1997 after attempting suicide on January 16. Unlike Nikola, Svetozar remained apolitical during the Yugoslav wars, as he told the New York Times in July 1992 in Sarajevo, a civil war-torn town .

death

Svetozar Koljević died unexpectedly on May 29, 2016 in Novi Sad. Koljević worked until the end with the playwright Ljubomir Simović on the celebration of the Shakespeare anniversary prepared by the SANU, was active as vice-president of the editorial board of the SANU and headed the legacy of Branko Ćopić . The poet Matija Bećković said that the news of the death in the case of Svetozar Koljević was incomprehensible to him: a person who was so active and creative until yesterday should already be in the other world .

The Koljević family received condolences from the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik , the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Željka Cvijanović , the President of the Parliament of the Republika Srpska Nedeljko Čubrilović and the Serbian representative of the Bosnian Presidium Mladen Ivanić.

bibliography

• Trijumf inteligencije: ogledi o novijem anglosaksonskom romanu, Prosveta, Beograd (1963)
• Humor i mit, Nolit, Beograd (1968)
• Naš junački ep, Nolit, Beograd (1974)
• Putevi riječi, Svjetlost (Biblioteka suvremenici), Sarajevo (1978)
• The Epic in the Making, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1980) (Revised English version by Naš junački ep )
• Viđenja i snoviđenja, Veselin Masleša (Suvremena domaća književnost), Sarajevo (1986)
• Hirove romana, Svjetlost (Biblioteka suvremenici), Sarajevo (1988)
• Po bijelom svijetu: zapisi i sjećanja, MS (Biblioteka Danas), Novi Sad (1997) - autobiographical memories
• Postanje epa, SANU, Organak u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad (1998)
• Njegoš u engleskoj i američkoj kulturi, Oktoih (Biblioteka Njegoš), Podgorica (1999)
• Englesko-srpski rječnik, Prosveta, Beograd (2002)
• Engleski pjesnici dvadesetog stoljeća (1914-1918): Od Vilfreda Owena do Filipa Larkina, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd (2002)
• Engleski romansijeri dvadesetog stoljeća (1914-1960): Od Jamesa Joycea do Williama Goldinga, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd (2003)
• Vječna zbilja: Odjeci usmene u pisanoj književnosti, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd (2005)
• Babilonski izazovi: o susretima različitih kultura u književnosti, Matica srpska, Novi Sad (2007)
• Odjeci riječi, Službeni glasnik, Beograd (2009)

Web link

• SANU - Serbian Academy Biographical Information

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1. ↑ Преминуо академик Светозар Кољевић
2. ^ John Miles Foley , Oral Tradition Svetozar Koljević - Equally conversant with modern British and his native South Slavic literature, Svetozar Koljević is Professor at the University of Sarajevo. His study The Epic in the Making (Oxford, 1980) provides the best English-language guide to the literary history of the South Slavic epic.
3. ↑ SANU - Svetozar Koljevic ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Martin L. West 1990: Archaic hero poetry: Singing and writing . Wolfgang Kullmann & Michael Reichel (eds.) 1990: The transition from orality to literature among the Greeks . P. 39 (Googlebooks)
5. ^ Svetozar Koljević: Preface to the translation of Serbian-Croatian heroic songs by Anne Pennington and Peter Levi: Marko the Prince - Serbo-Croat Heroic Songs . Unesco collection of representative works, European Series, Duckworth, London 1984, ISBN 0-7156-1715-X .
6. ^ Gabriel Partos, The Independent , February 4, 1997 Obituary: Nikola Koljevic
7. ↑ John F. Burne, New York Times, July 25, 1992 The Cemetery Has Now Become Sarajevo's Center
8. ↑ Novosti, May 30, 2016 SANU: Umro akademik Svetozar Koljević
9. ↑ САУЧЕШЋЕ ПОРОДИЦИ АКАДЕМИКА СВЕТОЗАРА КОЉЕВИЋА ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ САУЧЕШЋЕ ПОВОДОМ СМРТИ АКАДЕМИКА СВЕТОЗАРА КОЉЕВИЋА ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Телеграми саучешћа поводом смрти Светозара Кољевића