Review article
A higher exponentiation of spirit / Perspectives of literature in literary-historical and critical work of Vatroslav Jagić
Marina Protrka Štimec
orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-5625
; Department of Croatian language and literature, Faculty of humanities and social sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
An interpretative turn which in the last few decades of the twentieth century happened to literary and cultural theory, debate regarding the canon and the crisis at the university have reactualized the issue of their own theoretical and historical foundation and redefinition in contemporay context. Today, these issues reveal new perspectives in the study of the 19th century as a relevant period known by literary canon formation, affirmation of national, but also world literature, as well as a number of supporting institutions like the University and the Academy. The aim of this paper is to show the way in which Vatroslav Jagić’s critical and literary-historical work opens a new perspective on the literary and cultural field of the time, but also on its contemporary disintegration, as well as regarding the possibilities of its redefinition and our repositioning in these variable co-ordinates.
Keywords
Vatroslav Jagić; Stjepan Damjanović; literary magazine; “Vienac”; literature; literary canon; university; philology; education
Hrčak ID:
174582
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2012.
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