Now, Now : Dimitrije Mitrinović in London and His Practical
Approach to World Peace in the 1930s

k 2015

Now, Now : Dimitrije Mitrinović in London and His Practical Approach to World Peace in the 1930s

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid

Basic information

Original name

Now, Now : Dimitrije Mitrinović in London and His Practical Approach to World Peace in the 1930s

Authors

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid (70 Bosnia and Herzegovina, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

10th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, The Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University and The Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE), 5.-7. 2. 2015, Brno, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085468

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Dimitrije Mitrinović; 1930s; peace; initiatives; New Britain; modernist magazines

Abstract

V originále

Born in Herzegovina, to Serb parents, Dimitrije Mitrinović spent his youth studying philosophy, learning languages and traditional Serbian poetry. From 1906 he began pubslihing poetry of his own as well as critical and philosophical texts in Bosanska Vila, a Serb cultural and literary review of the early 1900s in Sarajevo. According to his biographer Andrew Rigby, under Mitrinović's influence, the magazine, initially focused on cultural and artistic tradition of Serbs in the region, became a space for the promotion of modernist art and literature. Mitrinović corresponded with some important European artists and intellectuals of his time very early on, having also studied in Munich and Rome. Already in 1910s he befriended and lectured on Wassily Kandinsky and Ivan Meštrović, as well as corresponded with Frederik van Eeden, Erich Gutkind, and Alfred Adler to name but a few. In this paper, however, I focus on his work of 1930s in London (where he moved before the First World War to escape the Austro-Hungarian mobilisation), especially his 1933 column "World Affairs" in the New Britain magazine. While the first of these articles, all signed M. M. Cosmoi, begins: "Certainly, life; and certainly, future...", in my paper I argue that Mitrinović was not just a visionary, but a person who paid the greatest attention to the way how the present could be used to influence the future. Not only did he propose a new world order based on federalism and peace, he worked hard to realise it in practice, gathering various influential figures around him and constantly creating new organisations and initiatives for the advancement of humanity.

Links

MUNI/A/0857/2013, interní kód MU

Name: Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu II (Acronym: NDEP)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid. Now, Now : Dimitrije Mitrinović in London and His Practical Approach to World Peace in the 1930s. In 10th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, The Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University and The Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE), 5.-7. 2. 2015, Brno. 2015.

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