Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2016.
Original scientific paper
IDEOLOGY AND LITERARY CRITICISM. THE CASE OF VINKO NIKOLIĆ
Ivica Matičević
; Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theatre and Music of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Abstract
During the four years of war and existence of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), literary criticism represented in many ways the continuation of the pre-war criticism. However, the changed political and social circumstances have also resulted in a certain new perspective to the status and nature of literature and literary criticism, and to the unambiguous instruction for the readers regarding the perception of the new reality and new relations within this collision of ideology and esthetics. The case of Vinko Nikolić gives evidence on the tension between advocating the ideologeme and faith in the beauty and inviolability of the work of art. How to overcome the fundamental collision of the tendency and esthetics? Was it even possible in the reality encumbered both by war events and by certain ideological misapprehensions? The answers to these questions were attempted to be found by the overview of author's reviews on some concrete literary works and of his essays on the nature and need for the development of the new national literature.
Keywords
history of Croatian literary criticism; ideology and Croatian literature; ideology and esthetics; Independent State of Croatia – literature and culture
Hrčak ID:
158238
URI
Publication date:
9.5.2016.
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