The article interprets Velebit as a space of peripatetic literature beginning, naturally, with Petar Zoranić’s Planine (written in 1536 and published in 1569) wherein, in addition to a personal ...psychogram on conventional lovesickness (“beteg”), the author problematizes the general situation in his “scattered heritage” (“rasuta bašćina”) (under Ottoman and Venetian threat). As opposed to Zoranić’s imaginary voyage formulated as an allegorical voyage of enlightenment along the paths of Velebit, Edo Popović, in his trans-genre Priručnik za hodače (The Walkers’ Manual) (2009), 440 years after Zoranić (to introduce some symbolism), with his zen-roamings in Velebit and his principle of “voluntary poverty,” as mirrored in Henry David Thoreau’s ecological matrix, equally discloses sociograms of not only “scattered heritage”, but of the global world order, as well. The trilogy of travel writings, of this hiking literature by Edo Popović, can be defined as peripatetic literature about Velebit. Yet it has to be stressed that these are travel writings, namely hiking literature with an engaged attitude toward reality.
The paper analyzes literary-critical texts published in the 1920s and 1930s that testify to the author’s significant turn to Catholic literature and the Catholic movement, which largely reflected on ...her literary work in the 1930s (Otac, 1931; Zlatko, 1934; Vječna zaručnica, 1939). This is evidenced by the literary journals in which Truhelka published, and which typically provided literary-critical reviews (Hrvatska prosvjeta, Obitelj, Luč, Hrvatska smotra, Hrvatska straža, Hrvatski list), as well as publishers who published her works (Hrvatsko književno društvo sv. Jeronima Croatian Literary Society of St. Jerome) and literary historians and critics who studied her work (Ljubomir Maraković, Josip Andrić, Petar Grgec, Zdenka Smrekar, Zdenka Marković). The promoted Catholic movement was also the key reason for ignoring Truhelka’s work after the Second World War, and the gradual literary-critical and cultural rehabilitation was made possible only in the late 1960s.
The paper deals with the decisionist approach to organization theory and presents the work of American Nobel laureate Herbert Simon as its chief representative. Information is collected from the work ...written by Simon himself, from books and papers authored by other people, most notably his close associates and critics, as well as Croatian literature dealing with decision-making in organizations and decision-making in general. Although his extraordinary contribution to several disciplines is recognized in the domestic literature, there is no systematic overview of Simon’s work. This paper aims to fill this void. First part of the paper tackles the basic concepts of Simon’s decisionmaking theory: rationality of decision-making and, in particular, bounded rationality, search for a satisfying solution (satisficing), heuristics, and differentiation between programmed and non-programmed decisions. The paper proceeds by presenting Simon’s understanding of decision-making within the organizational setting. It is argued that Simon’s understanding of organizations is anchored in the differentiation between two types of decisions: decision to participate and decision to produce (intraorganizational decisions). Finally, the last part of the paper explores criticism of Simon’s work.
The paper deals with the positive effects that the Declaration on the Name and Position of the Croatian Literary Language had on the standardization of the Croatian language, and with numerous ...valuable Croatian normative works written after the Declaration. The paper also points out the important role of D. Brozović in the post-Declaration period and there are some sketches from the linguistic activities of the author of the paper himself.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, in parallel, independently and in different languages, existed two literary traditions of different but also in many segments ...related poetics: Baroque in Croatia, originated within the Catholic Counter-Reformation and under strong influence of European Baroque, and Bosniak literature in Oriental languages, in which the central place is occupied by Diwan poetry of sufi-mystic inspiration. Similarities that are in the focus of this thesis are conditioned by social contexts, the influx of religions and religious orders, which has determined the utilitarian nature of these poetics, as well as similar collective and personal experiences of poets dedicated to religious and spiritual topics. In this sense, at the typological-motif level, they have a lot in common, with significant interweaving in expression, sometimes also in the form (length) of poems, and above all in worldview parallels, such as tendency towards the supremacy of hedonism and the affirmation of memento mori life principles. The most common motifs, such as love, infatuation, transience and contempt of this world, sin, as well as motifs of butterflies and candles have been given the most attention in comparative analysis. Sometimes, they are equally understood, butsometimes they have opposite meanings in the works of Baroque and Diwan poets. This literary-historical thesis, in that sense, is an attempt of intercultural and poetically oriented comparative analysis of analogous phenomena fromsimilar and, in many respects,interrelated national literatures.
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