Original scientific paper
„PESME HORVATSKE“ (CROATIAN POEMS) BY KATARINA PATAČIĆ : Rococo Kajkavian Style
Vanja Budišćak
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Abstract
In the north Croatian literary region dating from the sixteenth century, alongside with oral creativity, only religious creative endeavors existed in the writings of anonymous Kajkavian poets collected in handwritten almanacs (song-books). Literary production of our country's North thus had to wait until the year 1781 for the first non-religious book of poems to be put in hardback in Varaždin, the calligraphically written collection of poems„Pesme Horvatske“ signed with the name of Countess Katarina Patačić, . Descending from an environment that had been under a strong political and economical influence of middle Europe, Katarina's "Canzoniere" will reflect a late baroque and rococo style taste of the „gallant“ eighteenth century – leaning at the same time towards the tradition of Kajkavian anonymous poetry books with numerous special characteristics ranging from oral literature elements and folk rhyme elements, and to certain thematic and motif engagement. The goal of this research is detecting foreign and domestic, contemporary and traditional, artistic and folklore characteristics of „Pesme Horvatske“, and questioning their possible sources.
Keywords
Katarina Patačić; anonymous Kajkavian song-books; oral poetry; eighteenth century; rococo
Hrčak ID:
119564
URI
Publication date:
29.11.2013.
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