• Friday, 11 July 2025

Monograph on Macedonian poetics and stylistics published

Monograph on Macedonian poetics and stylistics published

Skopje, 12 June 2025 (MIA) — The International Committee of Slavists, in cooperation with the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz in Austria, has published a comprehensive overview of Macedonian poetics and stylistics from the Early Middle Ages to the 21st century, the first of its kind. 

 

The monograph, titled "Macedonian Poetics and Stylistics," was launched earlier Thursday at an event attended by its coauthors, who are members of the International Committee of Slavists' subcommittee on stylistics, as well as President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, Faculty of Philology dean Vladimir Martinovski and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University dean Biljana Angelovska. 

 

In her speech at the book launch, Angelovska stressed the importance of the monograph she described as a historical overview of Macedonian literature from its earliest beginnings.

 

"We could not have had a more dignified and more prestigious scholarly affirmation of the Macedonian language at the international level," she said, adding that the book spanned all Macedonian literature periods and genres.

 

"Faced with denial and attacks driven by non-academic motives, we often ask ourselves the question: 'What can we do from an academic point of view?'

 

 

"This is the result. The collective monograph 'Macedonian Poetics and Stylistics' is the mightiest answer," Angelovska said. 

 

Martinoski, too, lauded the importance of the monograph in affirming the Macedonian language, literature and culture. He said the book, through the lense of poetics and stylistics, took a retrospective look of written works produced in Macedonian.

 

"This is a book to read over and over again," he said. He added that it would inspire new ways of reading Macedonian-language works "from folk literature through the Middle Ages, the important 19th century, the first half of the 20th century and after."

 

 

Besides being the only scholarly overview of Macedonian poetics and stylistics, "Macedonian Poetics and Stylistics" is also the first in a series of monographs on the poetics and stylistics of several South Slavic languages set to be published by the International Committee of Slavists.

 

It was coauthored by Vesna Mojsova Chepishevska, Trajche Stameski, Ivan Antonovski, Slavcho Koviloski, Marina Cvetanoska, Biljana Rajchinova Nikolova, Slavica Petrovska Gjorgjevska, Ema Lakinska and Branko Tosovic, who teaches at the University of Graz.

 

Martinovski quoted excerpts from Tosovic's afterword to the book affirming the authenticity of the Macedonian language, and the Austrian-Serbian linguist and literature scholar addressed the gathering via video message. mr/