The topic of the "Agora" discussion, organized by the "Zahumlje" Public Institution from Nikšić, will be "Why literary criticism today". The discussion will be held on May 20th, in the "Zahumlja" hall, at 19 pm, and will be about literary criticism and its status in today's literary framework, with the editor of the discussion Anđeloma Pekovic, will be discussed by literary critic Dr. Vladan Bajceta and a poet Miljan Nikolic.
"The panelists will attempt to present the nature of today's literary criticism, its task and role on the literary scene, to examine who literary critics actually are, what their relationship is to the work they evaluate, how much critical awareness has actually been retained in this domain, and also whether and how the literary criticism of our time differs from the literary criticism of the past, when the leading figures were critics such as Jovan Skerlic, Bogdan Popovic, Pavle Popovic...", the announcement says.
Vladan Bajčeta graduated from the Serbian and World Literature Group at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, where he completed his master's and doctoral studies. He is a senior research associate at the Institute of Literature and Arts in Belgrade, Department of History of Serbian Literary Criticism and Metacriticism. He is the recipient of the Milan Bogdanović Award for the critical text "Memoari o sebi" (Memoirs of Self) about the book "Vidno polje (Field of View) by Goran Babić".
Miljan Nikolić graduated from the Department of Serbian Language and South Slavic Literature in Nikšić. He has published two books of poems, "Introduction to Itaku" and "Leptirov pir", and his poems are represented in four poetry collections. He received the "Vidovdanska povelja" literary award from the Writers' Association of Montenegro (2022) for his critical and essayistic valorization of contemporary Serbian literature in Montenegro. He is the editor of the poetry section in the magazine "Stvaranje" (the magazine of the Writers' Association of Montenegro) and is a journalist for Radio Montenegro 1 (the show "Cultural Panorama").
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