Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2018.
Original scientific paper
KATA MIJIĆ ALIAS KATE MITCHELL OR HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY
Ivan Bošković
orcid.org/0000-0001-7649-9360
; Faculty of philosophy in Split
Abstract
The name Kate Mijić (Kate Mitchell) has a special place in the context of popular and trivial literature. It belongs to an author considered to be (a sort of) a cultural phenomenon of our (literary) time due to her wondrous productivity and readers’ perception. This is the reason she is called the queen of Croatian romance novels, the uncrowned queen of romantic fiction and a woman who wants to give hope to people. The object of our consideration is her two (writer practice-wise) paradigmatic novels from her abundant productivity, characterized by simple plots, characteristic scheme of events, predictable twists and denouements and (somewhat) easy communication with the readers built on their identification with the worlds and destinies of the characters.
Keywords
Kata Mijić/Kate Mitchell; trivial and popular literature; romance novels; simple plots; predictable twists and denouements; identification of the readers with the characters
Hrčak ID:
200132
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Publication date:
9.5.2018.
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