Original scientific paper
Croatian Regions in Ján Kollár's Travelogue
Marijan Šabić
; Croatian Historical Institute, Department of History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Slavonski Brod
Abstract
In his first travelogue titled Cestopis obsahující cestu do Horní Italie a odtud přes Tyrolsko a Baworsko, se zwláštním ohledem na slawjanské žiwly roku 1841 konanau a sepsanau od Jana Kollára, Ján Kollár describes his travel through Croatian regions and short sojourns in Zagreb, Karlovac and Rijeka. Using four dominant themes, namely, historicism, Pan-Slavism, the bourgeois elite and the Croatian folk, the author of the article analyzes the Croatian motifs in Ján Kollár's travelogue, and demonstrates that the Croatian episode functions in it as a separate thematic and stylistic piece and somewhat of an introduction to the principal part of the travelogue in which Kollár intends to collect evidence of the ancient Slavic settlement of Apenine peninsula and about the Slavic roots of Italian culture thus placing the Croatian reception of this work in the context of the influence of Kollár's ideas in ninteenth-century Croatia.
Keywords
Ján Kollár; the ninteenth-century travelogue; Pan-Slavism; Ján Kollár and the Croats
Hrčak ID:
225914
URI
Publication date:
7.10.2019.
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