This book is devoted to the study of meanings and functions of the island in contemporary Croatian insular fiction. It is also an attempt to encourage the rejection of simplistic, trivial, strictly ...tourist representation of the country. The study focuses on eight contemporary works of fiction (seven novels and one collection of short stories written between the 1950s and 2000s) set on the islands off the eastern coast of the Adriatic. They are analysed applying Paul Ricoeur’s method of exploring the symbol, as proposed in “The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought”, the concluding chapter of his volume The Symbolism of Evil. Following his idea, the author of this study indicates four symbols: the desert, the prison, the theatrum mundi and the garden, by means of which she tries to approach the main symbol: the island. She elaborates on each of them on the basis of two different books, proposing two diverse interpretations of the notion in focus and uncovering attendant human experience they convey.
The Yugoslavian Library is a project by Julije Benešić which encompasses thirteen editions (fourteen books) mostly written by Croatian authors. Benešić published his Library in Poland between 1930 ...and 1938, and his main goal was to promote Croatian and Yugoslavian literature in Poland. This paper focuses on the published titles written by Croatian authors, and it discusses the social, cultural and political circumstances in order to determine the key criteria of choosing the authors and books that were included in this respectable translation and publishing achievement.
Priča o Hrvatskoj udruzi istraživača dječje književnosti (HIDK) može biti ispričana s mnogo točaka gledišta. Na idućih nekoliko stranica izložio sam svoju verziju koja može biti samo subjektivna pa ...stoga nužno nešto prenaglašuje, a drugo nenamjerno prešućuje. Ona je toliko subjektivna da ju niti ja, već pri drugom pokušaju pripovijedanja, ne bih bio u stanju ispričati na isti način. Gledajući iz moje perspektive, sve je započelo ovako… U jesen 2007. profesor Vinko Brešić ponudio mi je da, unutar kritičkoga izdanja Sabranih djela Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, priredim svezak koji se odnosio na njezine romane Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića i Jašu Dalmatina. Prihvatio sam ponudu profesora Brešića jer sam se nadao kako će to biti prilika da si pojasnim ona proturječja u interpretacijama tih sjajnih dječjih romana koja su me naročito smetala. ...
The multi-author monograph titled Peripheries in Croatian Literature and Culture is the result of an international Croatian studies scientific conference held on May 7-9, 2019, which the Croatists of ...the Institute of Slavonic Philology organized on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Croatian philology at the Silesian University in Katowice. The speakers delivered 80 papers and the whole conference was attended by about 100 participants. Among them were representatives of many Croatian studies both from Croatia, Montenegro as well as from Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Germany and Australia. This publication is one of the two parts of the two-volume post-conference book, which consists of texts from the fields of literary and cultural studies. It is divided into three sections, titled: Periferija - teorija, poetika, politika, Čitanje periferije and Na periferiji kanona. The range of topics is very wide: from old Croatian literature (e.g. Kajkavian literature) and folk literature (e.g. the question of the place of folk literature in the history of Croatian literature or the phenomenon of Dalmatian border mentality) to "newer" literature, both prose and poetry, essays and journalism. The monograph also contains several articles dealing with general issues, such as the condition of the humanities in the postmodern world, regionalism, and the attitude of Croats toward Yugoslavia. The authors devote much space to the problem of the canon. There are also articles on television series, comic books and the status of minority literature. The post-conference volumes are edited and published in cooperation with several Croatian university centres. In the case of the literary and cultural studies volume, these are the Croatian Studies departments of the University of Zagreb and of the University of Zadar.
Ovaj rad analizira oblikovanje gej, lezbijskih i biseksualnih identiteta u suvremenoj hrvatskoj književnosti te povezuje “izlazak iz ormara”, javno artikuliranje spomenutih identiteta, i odrastanje. ...Kronološki pregled proze objavljene od 2004. do 2018. uspostavlja odrastanje kao jednu od najvažnijih tema hrvatske queer proze i istražuje temelje tog vrlo postojanog interesa: klasični Bildungsroman, prozu u trapericama i stranu književnost dostupnu na hrvatskom jeziku. Strana je queer književnost povremeno kritizirana zbog prikazivanja identiteta kao konačnog i zatvorenog te zbog zahtjeva za vidljivom različitosti koji se nameće seksualno ili rodno nenormativnim pojedincima. Suvremena hrvatska proza, unatoč odlikama i motivima koje dijeli međusobno i sa stranom književnošću, identitete prikazuje kao otvorene i promjenjive te o protagonistima i protagonistkinjama piše kao o pripadnicima queer zajednice i recipijentima queer kulture.
The article is a contribution to the research of Slovak-Croatian literary and cultural relations. It focuses at the reception of Andrej Sládkovič (1820 – 1872) in the Croatian context. The second ...half of the 19th century is investigated through the analysis of contributions to Croatian literary magazines and newspapers such as Danica, Dragoljub, Vienac, Slavonac and Nada. The analysis of the 20th century and contemporary reception looks at texts published in various magazines, books and anthologies which contain translations by Luko Paljetak, Dubravka Dorotić Sesar and others. Since Sládkovič did not have any personal contacts with Croatian intellectuals of the time, the presence of his work in the 19th century Croatian cultural space was scarce. Wider recognition of his oeuvre came much later and in the late 20th century, it was intensified by the establishment of a Slovak studies programme at the University of Zagreb (as part of Czech studies in 1994 and as a separate programme in 1997). While in the 19th century, period magazines and newspapers – albeit sporadically – do mention Sládkovič, but do not contain any translations of his work, nowadays, translations are available, but are usually only known in the narrow academic circles of (mainly) Slavic studies experts.
Dort lernte sie ihren späteren Ehemann, den Historiker und Archivar Bernard Stulli (1915-85) kennen, der 1958-78 Leiter des Kroatischen Landesarchivs war. 1952 wechselte sie auf eine ...Assistentenstelle am Institut za narodna umjetnost (Institut für Volkskunst; heute: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku) in Zagreb, wo sie für den Forschungsbereich mündliche Literatur verantwortlich war. 1961 schloß sie ihre Dissertation über die Midassage ab (Narodna predaja o vladarevoj tajni Die Volkssage vom Geheimnis des Herrschers), die 1967 in Zagreb im Druck erschien (mit deutscher Zusammenfassung p. 301-341). In: Comparative Studies in Croatian Literature. ed. Daß eine solche Haltung, die zweifellos auch mit der eigenen Lebensgeschichte zu tun hatte, nicht immer positive Reaktionen hervorrief, liegt auf der Hand - zumal in einem solchen Gebiet, in dem verschiedene Völker auf ein Zusammenleben an- gewiesen sind. Diese Kompromißlosigkeit ist nicht vielen Menschen eigen, aber sie wie andere aus ihrer Generation haben dafür gesorgt, daß nach den verheerenden Verwerfungen des 2.
Given that from Romanticism onward the fantastic in world narrative fiction centers around the idea of fear of the unknown and inexplicable, this paper explores the manifestations of this emotion in ...selected Croatian fantastic stories from the 19th century. Since the concept of genre is a variable category dependent on a number of literary and non-literary factors, this paper also discusses topic and genre qualification, especially considering the presence of motifs related to the emotion of fear. In the Western literature of the 19th century, the fantastic narrative genre with the motive of fear as the main narrative core is quite frequent. Some elements of fantastically intoned literature with features of literary horror are also present in the research corpus: from the romantic features of Jorgovanić’s fantasy, the bridging of realistic poetics and the turn to mysticism in Gjalski’s stories to the modernist psychologization of Matoš and Leskovar. Although traditional Croatian literary historiography does not interpret its basic corpus through the prism of the motif of fear, its presence leads to a number of research questions: how does fear manifest itself in the narrative text?, which narrative level does the emotion of fear belong to?, how does the motif of fear participate in the production of the fantastic and irreal? etc.
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