Original scientific paper
IVO FRANGEŠ AND THE CONCEPTUAL MOVEMENTS IN CROATIAN LITERATURE OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Josip Lisac
; Department for Croatian and Slavic at the University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
As it is generally known, the main scientific attention of the historian of the Croatian literature Ivo Frangeš was dedicated to Croatian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His interest in older literature is also important since he was a historian of national literature in general; he was also the one who determined the meaning of the history of literature in text interpretations, as well as the one who evaluated the artistic achievements of texts and beauty of their language with the clear meaning of the knowledge for the history of literature. Since the question of language is one of the important questions of Croatian literary history, it is clear that Frangeš also observed it from the aspect of building a language suitable for all the purposes that it was needed for within Croatian society, while among those needs, the need for serving the art of words, by all means, undoubtedly has its place. It is important to mention Frangeš’s work written in 1962 called "Conceptual movements in South-Slavic literature from the eighteenth century", especially because of its linguistic meaning, because this work started a new approach to categorizing the Croatian literary language into periods, while the work of Marin Franičević from 1965 "Problems of categorizing periods in Croatian literature", also takes a significant place. After the initiative from historians of Croatian literature, linguists led by Dalibor Brozović and Radoslav Katičić also provided their much needed insight, i.e. their once-more reevaluated views not only on the Croatian language of the eighteenth century, but also on Croatian literary history as a whole. It can be concluded that in a relatively early phase of his work, Ivo Frangeš noticed all the most important characteristics which in the eighteenth century characterized Croatian and other Southern-Slavic areas and did that in a representative style with full knowledge and deliberate manner thus influencing newer analysis of Croatian linguistic history.
Keywords
Frangeš; the Age of Enlightenment; 18th century
Hrčak ID:
94002
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Publication date:
28.11.2012.
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