Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 41 No. 1, 2015.
Original scientific paper
PAYING HISTORY A VISIT. PERIOD BETWEEN 1914 AND 1918
Ivana Mandić Hekman
; Academy of Sciences and Arts, Split
Abstract
This text is titled »Paying History a Visit« because its layout is related to the hypotheses of Radoslav Katičić presented in his essay »How Significant is the New Journey to History Today«. It is a reliable guide on the journey through history with the right amount of the present and the past and the view towards the future. History does not only refer to the past, but it simultaneously provides us with the insight into the measure of the man’s humanity which shapes that past. Experience has no particular influence on the everyday life and that is attested by the beginning of the war in 1914, which could not even be stopped by the tech¬nological development at the beginning of the century or fundamental changes which ensued in culture, literature and art. Hundred years after the Great War we would like to believe that the times have changed, but the question is whether the human disposition changed? Those shifts were interpreted by Homer a long time ago, who spoke about history as something which is ahead of us and the future is what we leave behind. He observes the man who travels through time reversely, backwards, and what lies ahead is only what he has experienced and which can be interpreted. Changes (and shifts) are possible and understandable even in war times which is confirmed by numerous examples when Croatian countries, even though disunited and underdeveloped and under the government of the Dual Monarchy for half of the century, persistently tried to keep pace with the world-wide cultural occurrences.
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138987
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Publication date:
30.4.2015.
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