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POPULAR LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES OF THE SAINTS IGNAC KRISTIJANOVIĆ (1796- 1884.)
Divna Zečević
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Modes of christian instruction in sermons are present in biographies of the saints in a form of a world-view. Lives of saints or individual scenes from their lives are narrated on certain specific days throughout the year. The protagonists of this literary genre,
biographies of the saints, are confronted with an extremely dramatic, scenic choice: either an eternal life or death. As D. S. Lihačev wrote down, they always undergo, from scene to scene, this dramatic situation of threatening choice between salvation and eternal ruin.
The way of working on the writing of the biographies of saints has not been changed in the 19^^ century, a fact that turns our attention to the specificity of the utilitarian popular pious literary reading-pieces. It would therefore be thoroughly inadequate to characterize the literary work by Ignac Kristijanović, namely his biographies of the saints, as a compilation. He wrote these biographies relying on his previous readings of his kajkavian literary predeccessors (for instance, of Hilarion Gašparoti) and pubHshed his popular pious reading-matter of utilitarian character with distinct puropses, out of love for the common people, inciting it to lead a chaste christian life, but also having in
mind the indifference of those believers whom he calls "half-hearted christians". Ignac Kristijanović demonstrates an aim of literary production different from the dominant social orientation of his time, namely a direction towards the defense of the kajkavian literary language, in a period in which all the Croatian intellectual forces were
unified in an attempt to establish a common štokavian literary language.He persisted in doing his work on popular literary secular and pious reading-pieces for a vast kajkavian literary audience.
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Datum izdavanja:
5.12.2001.
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