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Interpretations of the Identity of older croatian Writers
Divna Mrdeža Antonina
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zadru
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The article deals with the procedure of the subsequent inscription of a common identity and the controversies that attend the national determination of the literary heritage which in contemporary literary history is regularly labeled as older Croatian literature. An analysis of the methodology of the two modes of the interpretation of the national identity of Croatian older writers (amongst a part of Italian scholars of Croatian literature and amongst a group of Serbian literary historians) brings to the fore interesting similarities in the choice and demonstration of arguments and in the manner of reaching wholly opposite conclusions. The article does not make pretensions of giving a all-encompassing presentation of all voices and opinions concerning the place of older Croatian literature in literary history but rather restricts itself to an assessment of selected (representative) examples: on the one hand, the works of the Italian scholar of comparative literature A. Cronia and his followers and, on the other, the Belgrade philological school.
The first part of the article presents the points of departure of the interpretation promulgated by the Italian school which primarily uses the Italian language and its literature as a legitimation of identity after which it proceeds to different aspects of the literary work and connects them to the self-determination of the writer or the nation. The second part of the article shows how an attempt has been made to create a wholly different identity using the same or similar »material evidence« derived from a specific literary heritage. The analysis of the way the hypothesis was presented, the manner the evidence was explained and the way conclusions were reached reveal clear presuppositions about the manner in which geopolitical visions were promulgated by way of the methodology of literary history both amongst the Italian scholars of Croatian literature and amongst Serbian literary historians. In addition, differences in the procedure of creating »imagined« and »fabricated« national communities are revealed although the article only haphazardly and partially compares the interpretations of identity within these controversial theories to those in Croatian literary history which, in large part, arose as defensive reactions to the political state of affairs as far back as the 19th century.
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Hrčak ID:
72977
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Datum izdavanja:
3.5.2007.
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