{"title":"Discursive Intersections and Film-Making Constraints: To Have and Have Not","authors":"Sergej Macura","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the several stages of the screenplay for Howard Hawks’s film To Have and Have Not (1944), loosely based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the same title. It illustrates the changes from the original narrative throughout the screenwriting process to the script of the film release version, focusing on the crucial contextual causes of the alterations, which include: the stricter rules of decency and violence on screen, enforced by the Motion Picture Production Code, the immediate context of World War II and politically sensitive topics that had to be approved by censorship, and finally, William Faulkner’s tenure at Warner Brothers, during which time he learned by practice to assist Hawks on very short notice and make on-the-set changes when the crew considered them necessary.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132246811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Horror and a Phantasm”: Heidegger Quotation as a Gothic Device in Flannery OʼConnorʼs “Good Country People”","authors":"V. Vujošević","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch9","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the parodic rendition of the prominent Gothic convention of “found manuscript” in Flannery O ʼ Connor ʼ s “Good Country People”. In Gothic narratives, parents are often confronted with some compromising textual evidence of their children’s disturbing secrets. In O’Connor’s story, Mrs. Hopewell stumbles upon a book her daughter is reading. A passage from this tome functions as a parodic “found manuscript” of the Gothic: its incomprehensible and bizarre content appears to the benighted Mrs. Hopewell as “an evil incantation in gibberish”. However, the fragment in question is an excerpt from Martin Heidegger ʼ s What Is Metaphysics? The reference to the proverbially esoteric author ironically highlights the textual uncommunicativeness of the Gothic. However, the quotation in question is not just a part of mere Gothic parody for it can also be read as a meta-commentary on the nature of Gothic textuality itself.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"10 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128774196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Protean Nature of Landscapes in John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse","authors":"M. Arsic","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch18","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse from the particular perspective of the status of spaces in an attempt to show how landscapes tie in with Barth’s attitudes towards storytelling and how the shifting nature of those landscapes becomes the object of focus. Examined in the paper is the connection between the protagonists’ identities and the landscapes. Alterations including the landscapes are simultaneously part of what is referred to here as the protean nature of space and a challenge to any passivized approaches to a text. Two levels of comparison are applied in order to achieve this goal: Barth’s theoretical essays – primarily “ The Literature of Exhaustion ” and “ The Literature of Replenishment ” – are examined in relation to the collection of short stories whereas narrative strategies concerning landscapes are compared to those which primarily deal with protagonists and plots. When everything else fades, be it atypical narrators, heroes and eventually even audiences, only art and experience endure – or more precisely – storytelling and love.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116610596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Satire on Identity Formation in Jonathan Coe’s The House of Sleep","authors":"Andreea Daniela Țacu","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch19","url":null,"abstract":"The House of Sleep is a canny satire with an oblique meditation on love, sleep, memory and dreams, and Jonathan Coe proves himself to be a satirist of the ambiguities of identity. In addition to the social levels of signification specific to Coe’s literature, The House of Sleep allows for a more intimate and psychological reading. The present paper is intended to provide an in-depth analysis on the character’s identity formation, focusing on the relationship between the mechanisms of satire and the Self-Other dynamics – expressed in the novel through the dichotomies of power and subordination, and of superiority and weakness. In essence, the novel deals with the tension between subjective consciousness and objective reality, showing how difficult it is for the characters to separate fantasy from real life. Otherness takes multiple forms in The House of Sleep , being represented either by the new system, on a larger scale, or by the characters themselves, for being different and not fitting the norms, on a minor scale. In both cases, the dynamics between the Self and the Other influences the development of the characters because the process of constructing one’s identity also involves the surrender to the Other.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128092674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postmodern Sunsets and the Concept of Death in Delillo’s White Noise and Zero K","authors":"Slađana S. Stamenković","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch23","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout his works, Don DeLillo frequently refers to the concept of death and the fear of it. Death, as the ultimate ending of any life, is seen as a fearsome force in any form it takes in DeLillo’s novels – be it war, terrorism, or overall destruction of civilization as we know it. In White Noise and Zero K, death is represented in the form of physical illness. The leitmotif of sunsets reoccurs in several of DeLillo’s novels in relation to death, but most notably in these two. Strikingly similar, these phenomena are nonetheless regarded differently. The human interaction with these proves to be crucial for discussing the joy of living and the preciousness of human life.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129571782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anglo–Serbian Cultural Relations During the Great War and Its Aftermath: Learning of the Other Through War Efforts","authors":"Slobodan G. Markovich","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch28","url":null,"abstract":"After sketching a relatively low level of knowledge about Britain in Serbia and vice versa prior to the Great War, the paper highlights the closer encounter of Serbia, the United Kingdom and the United States that occurred during the Great War, as well as the effect of that encounter on the subsequent Anglo-Serbian cultural relations. Specifically, the pertinent links during the Great War are analysed through (1) the stipends provided to Serbian schoolboys/students in Britain, (2) the stay of Serbian intellectuals in Britain, and (3) the impact of British-Serbian war co-operation on the Macedonian/Salonica Front; also taken into account is (4) the impact of Serbian volunteers from the United States. Subsequent Anglo-Serbian/Yugoslav cultural relations in the inter-war period are further analysed with regard to (1) Brits/Americans residing in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (2) the continual British educational schemes for Serbian students, (3) the emergence of organised English language instruction in Serbia, and (4) the impact of numerous inter-war Anglophile associations in Serbia/Yugoslavia. The experience of the Great War is viewed as the turning point which paved the way for all subsequent forms of Anglo-Serbian (Yugoslav) co-operation in the fields of education and culture.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129299456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lament over Londongrad: Reflections Upon the Footsteps of Miloš Crnjanski","authors":"Vesna Goldsworthy","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch29","url":null,"abstract":"In 1946, Miloš Crnjanski started writing a novel in English entitled The Shoemakers of London. Against the harsh realities of both his exile in Britain and of his English – functional but unequal to the exigencies of writing fiction – the work remained unfinished only to be transformed into A Novel of London (1971), one of the masterpieces of Serbian literature. Both my life and my writing are, to some extent, following in Crnjanski’s footsteps. I could not but be aware of small triumphs in the very places where he failed, whether it be the fact that I hold a professorship at Exeter University, where he had hoped to get a teaching job but never did; or that, in 2015 and in 2018, my own novels of London briefly occupied the Piccadilly shopfront of Hatchards, the bookshop for which he worked as a deliveryman. Such successes only highlight my sense of humility before his writing. It would be a folie de grandeur even to begin to compare our literary achievement, but I will dare to use our examples in order to contemplate the changing notions of being a Serbian writer in the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130042218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Last of the Mohicans as a National Monument","authors":"F. Dumas","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch13","url":null,"abstract":"Monuments are usually associated with size, which befits the renowned American fascination for big proportions. The colonization of America, however, owes a lot to its idealized concept as a virgin land, devoid of history and of the monuments that typically symbolize the latter. Vast tracts of American land are officially treated as national monuments; just like architectural constructions dedicated to the celebration of national pride and identity, the natural environment is emblematic of the essence of the country. This article establishes that The Last of the Mohicans too may be seen as a national monument which aims to express the quintessence of the United States, as well as a memorial — in a potentially subversive way.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115859237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painter From Piccadilly: British–Serbian Pop Culture/Rock Music Encounters","authors":"Brana Rosic","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch30","url":null,"abstract":"The iconic song title “Painter from Piccadilly” by the Serbian rock band Smak [Endtime] captures the symbolism of lasting British–Serbian pop culture encounters in the field of rock music. In this talk, based on personal experience and reflections, I will highlight the profound impact of such encounters on many generations in Serbia/ex-Yugoslavia, from the 1960s to the present day, from the groundbreaking Džuboks [Jukebox] magazine (the first rock’n’roll magazine in an Eastern European country), via the performance of YU grupa [YU Group] at the Marquee Club in London and the arrival of the legendary British New Musical Express magazine in Belgrade, to the indispensable appearance of British bands at the Exit music festival in Serbia (with Exit 2019 headlined by The Cure). In particular, I will focus on the social significance of the Deep Purple 1975 and The Prodigy 1995 landmark concerts in Belgrade, with a view to the 21st century meeting points of British and Serbian pop culture.","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123803638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British–Serbian Cultural Ties Revisited: More Than Meets the Eye","authors":"Katarina Rasulić","doi":"10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/bells90.2020.2.ch27","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of British–Serbian cultural ties fits logically with the occasion marked by the BELLS90 conference – the 90th anniversary of the English Department at the University of Belgrade. The pertinent contextual connection stems from several factors. First and foremost, the English Department’s founding parents – Prof. Vladeta Popović and Mrs. Mary Stansfield-Popović – personify a British–Serbian cultural and educational encounter that served as a cornerstone in the shaping of English language, literature and culture studies in Serbia and former Yugoslavia.12 Secondly, the Department cherishes the scholarly legacy of the late Prof. Veselin Kostić, whose extensive research on the history of British–Serbian (and Yugoslav) cultural relations provides a precious basis for further study.23 Thirdly, throughout its history, the Department has developed and grown through various forms of British–Serbian","PeriodicalId":439877,"journal":{"name":"Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS90 Proceedings. Volume 2","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130907934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}