Jelena Pilipović

Jelena Pilipović is teaching at the Chair of comparative literature and litarary theory, Faculty of philology, Belgrade. She published Orfejev vek - teorija idiličnosti as well as several studies and articles concerning mainly classical literature and intertextual links between modern and ancient authors.




ABSTRACT
Epiphany. Homeric prototext and its semantic and symbolic impact

Text will explore the antique dimensions of this polysemic notion: leaving aside the Christian background, ambiguously present in the Portrait, it will try to seize its link with the classical, especially Homeric, idea of the divinity and its self-revelation to the chosen mortals. It will try, as well, to establish some connections between so conceived, Homeric, epiphany and the intertextual dialogue with the very Homeric text in Ulysses. Hidden behind the resolutely different poetics, poetic structure and chronotope, Homeric prototext is epiphanically revealing itself through the novel. Homeric dimension of the very epiphanic scene in the Portrait shows its double meaning. Theologically, it represents the ancient-new way of incorporating the divinity into the everyday human existence. Poetologically, it anticipates and announces the authentic way of incorporating the poetic quasi-divinity, be it Homer or some other, equally esteemed and sublimed author, into the profoundly de-divinized text - giving birth to the modern re-mythology.