Category: Festic, F

This text offers a comparative analysis of a lyric poem, The Dream (1841) by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov and a short story, Dreams (1886) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, two major Russian authors embedded in the rigid Russian imperial structures. I examine their dream concepts and figurations, and their  representations of various structures that permeate the human existence and human experience of the empire.
My analysis involve multiple semiotic references, specifically, a dialogue between the theories by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche, Samuel Weber, and more recent feminist theories by Shoshana Felman, Theresa de Lauretis, Judith Butler, Adriana Cavarero.

The text discusses the more recent intellectual/artistic dispersions from Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian cultures across the Central European territorial and cultural domains.