Tragovi tugovanja

master's thesis

• Title: Tragovi tugovanja : sablastološko čitanje W.G. Sebalda
• Title (english): Traces of Mourning : A Hauntological Reading of W.G. Sebald
• Author: Borna Šućurović
• Mentor: Luka Bekavac (mentor)
• Committee member: Branislav Oblučar (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Luka Bekavac (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Maša Grdešić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Comparative literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-07-12, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Comparative Literature

Abstract

Ovaj rad nudi kratak prikaz sablastologije, teorije književnosti i povijesti koju je razvio Jacques
Derrida, te njene primjenjivosti na čitanje književnih tekstova. Prvi dio rada posvećen je
psihoanalitičkim počecima sablastologije, u prvome redu teorijama tugovanja i melankolije u
djelima Sigmunda Freuda, Nicolasa Abrahama te Marije Torok. Uz psihoanalitičku pozadinu
pojma sablasti, u tekstu će također biti riječi o njegovim bitnim karakteristikama i operacijama
primarno kroz čitanje Derridaovih tekstova. Kroz djela Marka Fishera i Katy Shaw nastojat će se
prikazati razvitak sablastologije kao punopravne teorije kulture i književnosti. Konačno, na
primjeru dva romana Winfrieda Georga Sebalda – Vrtoglavice i Saturnovih prstena – prikazat će
se kako brojni motivi i grafički elementi teksta kojima se autor služi čine te romane pogodnima
za sablastološka čitanja.

Abstract (english)

This paper aims to offer a short overview of hauntology, a literary and historical theory
developed by Jacques Derrida, as well as its applicability to literary texts. The first part of the
paper is dedicated to the psychoanalytical beginnings of hauntology, primarily the theories of
mourning and melancholia found in the works of Sigmund Freud, Nicolas Abraham and Maria
Torok. Along with this psychoanalytical background of spectral studies, the paper aims to
illustrate their characteristics and operations primarily through the reading of Derrida’s texts.
Through the works of Mark Fisher and Katy Shaw the paper will attempt to illustrate the
development of hauntology into a mature cultural and literary theory. Finally, using the example
of two novels by Winfried Georg Sebald – Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn – the paper argues
that the various motifs and graphical elements of the text makes the novels suitable for
hauntological readings

• Keywords: sablastologija; književna teorija; tugovanje; trag; prisutnost; Derrida; Fisher; Sebald
• Keywords (english): hauntology; literary theory; mourning; trace; presence; Derrida; Fisher; Sebald
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:236270
• Study programme: Title: Comparative Literature (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti (magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-07-14 14:56:04