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I am Milosav Ž. Čarkić, a professor of linguоpoetics, and this is my first attempt to present my books and scientific papers to the world through Steemit and the new blockchain technology. Since the field of my interests includes poetic language and not coding, the administrator of this virtual bookstore will be @lighteye.

To begin with, the @bookshop-mc will only sell editions of my books and magazines, but if there are other authors who want to sell books over the Internet, you will have the opportunity to see an extended choice, or, if you have written a book yourself, to use sales services through our bookstore…

Now, a little more detailed presentation…

Biography of Prof. Milosav Ž. Čarkić, PhD

Prof. Milosav Ž. Čarkić, PhD, research consultant at the Serbian Language Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade in 1977. In January 1978 he was appointed assistant lecturer at the Serbian Language Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. He defended his master’s thesis at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1980, entitled Osnovne odlike jezika u poetskim ostvarenjima za decu Stevana Raičkovića [The Main Language Features of the Poetical Works for Children by Stevan Raičković]. In January 1991 he defended the doctoral thesis entitled Glasovna struktura stiha (na materijalu srpskih neosimbolističkih pesnika) [The Sound Structure of Verse (on the corpus of Serbian Neo-Symbolist Poets)] at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He has participated in over 50 international conferences and congresses in the region of Slavic and some Western European countries. He has published over 100 scholarly works. Over half the published works have been published in foreign journals and proceedings in the Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and English languages.

Teaching:

1. From 1983 to 1987 M. Čarkić gave lectures on the Serbian language at the “Lomonosov” Moscow State University.

2. from 1997 to 2003, as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Banjaluka, he taught Stylistics to students at the Serbian Language and Literature Department and the Department of Journalism.

3. From 2001 to 2005, at the Faculty of Philosophy of Niš, he taught General Linguistics to students of Serbian language and literature and The Serbian Language to students of English and Russian, and in the academic year 2004/2005, at the same Faculty, the Department of Journalism, he gave lectures in Stylistics and Rhetoric.

4. from 2003 to 2006, Prof. Čarkić, PhD, gave lectures in Linguostylistics, General Linguistics, Lexicology and Lexicography, and Phonetics in undergraduate studies at the Philosophical Faculty and Faculty of Special Education of Tuzla (Bosnia Herzegovina). In the same city, at the Faculty of Philosophy, in the academic year 2004/2005, he gave lectures in Linguostylistics in postgraduate studies.

5. From 2006 to 2009 he gave lectures in the History of Serbian and Croatian Literature from the Beginnings to the 18th Century, and lectures in Contrastive Grammar at the University of Opole (Poland).

6. In 2011 he gave semestral lectures: The Quantitative and Qualitative Models of Rhyme in Poetry, at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno (the Czech Republic).

Published books:

1. Фоника стиха, Научна књига, Београд, 1992, 349;

2. Фоностилистика стиха, Научна књига, Београд; Институт за српски језик САНУ, Београд, 1995, 249;

3. Појмовник риме (са примерима из српске поезије), Институт за српски језик САНУ, Београд; Филозофски факултет, Бањалука, 2001, 278;

4. Увод у стилистику, Научна књига, Београд, 2002, 289;

5. Стилистика стиха, Међународно удружење „Стил“; Институтa за српски језик САНУ Београд, 2006, 287;

6. Римаријум српске поезије, Међународно удружење „Стил“; Института за српски језик САНУ Београд, 2007, 484;

7. On Poetic Language, Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 2010, 244;

8. Стих и језик, Међународно удружење Стил и Институт за српски језик САНУ, Београд, 2013, 642;

9. Models of Rhyme, Међународно удружење „Стил“, Београд, 2015, 370;

10. On Poetic Language, Publishing house: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, 2016, 228 (Germany).

11. У језику поезије, Међународно удружење „Стил“, Београд, 2016, 341.

12. Models of Rhyme, Publishing house: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, 2017, 228 (Germany).

13. Рима у српском стиху, Међународно удружење „Стил“, Београд, 2017, 325.

Member of editorial boards of international journals:

1. Stylistyka – Polish academy of sciences; Opole University. – Opole. – Poland.

2. Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski – Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie. – Olsztyn. – Poland.

3. Экология языка и коммуникативная практика – Сибирский федеральный университет. – Россия.

4. Стиль і переклад – КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка. – Київ. – Украина.

5. Studia methodologica – Тернопiльский нацiональний педагогíчний унiверситет iменi Володимира Гнатюка. – Тернопiль. – Украина.

6. Стил – The International Association “Style“; Orthodox Theological Faculty of Belgrade University. – Belgrade. – Serbia. (Čarkić initiated it and was the editor-in-chief).

Member of international organisations and commissions:

1. In 1998, at the proposal of an international commission, Milosav Ž. Čarkić was elected into the membership of the World Organisation of Dialectologists and Geolinguists based in FR Germany;

2. He is a member of the International Commission for Poetics with the Slavicist Committee based in Brno (the Czech Republic);

3. He is a member of the International Commission for Stylistics with the Slavicist Committee based in Moscow (Russia).

4. In 2002 he founded the “Style” International Scholarly Association with its seat in Belgrade.

Honours:

1. In 2000, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Opole (Poland), Prof. M. Ž. Čarkić, PhD, was awarded an Honorary Degree (Dyplom honorowy) for his contribution to the development of scholarship and didactics;

2. In 2005, M. Ž. Čarkić was awarded by Petrozavodsk State University the Honorary PhD (Диплом почетного доктора) for high accomplishments in research and the development of stylistics within Slavic studies;

3. In 2010, M. Ž. Čarkić was awarded the Honorary Degree (Dyplom honorowy) by the Polish Academy of Sciences for contribution to the development of stylistics in general, and Slavic stylistics in particular.

Fields of interest and research achievements:

The main field of interest of Prof. Milosav Ž. Čarkić, PhD, is research into the poetic language of Serbian poetry. Of special interest are his efforts to identify the poetic code of Serbian poetry, and poetry in general. The most prominent in that regard is his phono-stylistic and stylistic research of poetic language, within which Prof. Čarkić has contributed to the methodology and introduced many new terms, thus rounding off this field of research. By understanding and using these achievements, every researcher can now embark on analysing poetic language and poetry in general much more easily. Apart from that, Prof. Čarkić has been studying rhyme, and has formulated his own theory, accompanied by the corresponding methodology and terminology. It should be noted that Čarkić has introduced into the field of rhyme over 80 new terms, and has challenged some old ones, such as feminine, masculine, dactylic, pure, impure rhyme, introducing his own terms, such as monophonemic, biphonemic, triphonemic, tetraphonemic rhyme, etc., as well as isomorphic, metathetic, epenthetic and metathetic-epenthetic rhyme, covering all the quantitative and qualitative forms of rhyme.

Dealing with rhyme in the Serbian epic decasyllable, unlike all the other scholars so far, both local and foreign (including Roman Jakobson), he has shown that this type of verse rhymes. Generally speaking, all research by Čarkić is characterized by an original scholarly approach at the highest level of theory and application. His works are written with scientific accuracy, methodological clarity and originality. His analyses are always based on extensive material, drawing on diverse sources, and accompanied by an exhaustive review of critically interpreted relevant theoretical assumptions with regard to his own investigations. Each analysis conducted by Čarkić leads to a detection of new facts and to original conclusions. All this has been stated by reviewers of his published studies. As an example, we shall quote the few final sentences from the Review by Prof. Ivo Pospíšil, PhD (Masaryk University of Brno, the Czech Republic) of Čarkić’s study Verse and Language: “Čarkić’s phenomenal book represents an array of textual analyses trying to synthetize the linguistic, poetological, stylistic, comparative, semiological and philosophical conception of the language of verse as a key to a more detailed and elaborate understanding of poetry as a means of grasping the totality of human existence […] I would even say that the theory of the verse language might be divided as ‘before and after Čarkić’: his knowledge of literary style enabled him to demonstrate that the literary and linguistic studies form one continuous space. In the context of contemporary verse research Čarkić’s book represents a book of supreme quality. His perfect knowledge of poetry in general and Serbian poetry in particular confirm him one of the leading world experts in verse investigation.”

We shall also quote a few final sentences from the Review of Čarkić’s study Models of Rhyme (2017) by Prof. Andrej Stojanović (Belgrade University): “Generally speaking, the monograph Models of Rhyme by M. Ž. Čarkić represents an original scholarly work which fundamentally alters scientific perception in this field of poetic language, thus calling into question the existing definitions of rhyme, its beginning and end, its classification (both quantitative and qualitative), its terms, which are largely metaphorical (masculine, feminine, children’s, rich, poor, pure, dirty), its (in)correctness (monosyllabic, disyllabic, trisyllabic etc.). The monograph was written in a simple and easily comprehensible style, which leads to the conclusion that the author’s mind was totally clear when he established his theory and classification of rhyme. In order to demonstrate the validity of his theoretical and terminological solutions, Čarkić chose for the subject of his research ten representative world poetries: American, English, Czech, French, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Spanish. […] The publishing of this study would enable the local and global scholars to get acquainted with original solutions by the author, but also with centuries-old fallacies that have dominated this specific scholarly discipline.”

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So much for the beginning, greetings and thanks to everyone for a visit, I hope we will have a good time together.

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