Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 40 No. 1, 2014.
Original scientific paper
WHAT WASN’T SAID OF HVAR AT THE HVAR THEATRE DAYS OR: HOW IDEOLOGY WROTE THE HISTORY OF CROATIAN LITERATURE?
Ivan Bošković
orcid.org/0000-0001-7649-9360
; Faculty of philosophy in Split
Abstract
In the forty-year long tradition, the Hvar Theatre Days have become one of the most important theatrical and literary and scientific cultural events in general. Many of the renowned Croatian and international scientists and experts covered numerous issues regarding theatrical and cultural life since the earliest times to the present day, as it is so eloquently testified by library titles which are so encompassing and significant and can only be compared by very few editions in our culture.
Many of the local, Hvar themes and names were analyzed, some of which were mentioned only in passing or were completely forgotten and unspoken about, although their literary contribution does not allow us to fall into oblivion.
We are talking about the literature by Sibe Miličić, Niko Bartulović and Cvite Škarpa. They are not only forgotten and kept in secret by Hvar’s theatrical events only, but also by the Croatian literary historiography, and are mentioned only in local memory and in the foot-notes of literary history. The reasons for this suppression and oblivion are to be found in extra-literary circumstances which are often decisive criteria in comparison to standards for literature.
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Publication date:
30.4.2014.
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