Baština (Jan 2014)

Literary historian of the old school: Milovan J. Bogavac in literary criticism

  • Mumović Ana M.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2014, no. 36
pp. 95 – 110

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During the six decades in literary work Milovan J. Bogavac has created extensive research, historiography, literary and scientific work. He makes five monographs, four studies, two books of literary criticism, a chronicle, an anthology and a history of literature, as well as six books of prepared. One of the few members of our literary historiography which is almost entirely devoted to the study of literature and Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohia and in that work achieved significant results. A huge literary and historical criticism of the work is presented mainly in newspaper articles and to a lesser extent in journals in the field of literature, culture and art. If we bear in mind the fact that the press and critics are full of attention to books of Milovan J. Bogavac, it is clear what is and what was his scientific and cultural mission focused on the Serbian people. Overview of evaluation of Bogavac works in the current literary criticism shows what marked his place in the history of values.

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