Original scientific paper

Fauna in the Sermons of Štefan Zagrebec

Zlata Šundalić ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

The focal point of interest of this paper is 18th century kajkavian prose. The authors in question are kajkavian religious storytellers (K. Georgijević) who by writing/telling their sermons also became prose-writers, since in their spiritual conversations they also included various stories, anecdotes and fairytales - frequently with fantastic elements. Prose like this was first written in the 17th century by Juraj Habdelić, and in the 18th century it was produced by authors such as: Juraj Mulih, Štefan Zagrebec, Štefan Fuček, and others. The paper gives special attention to sermons written by Štefan Zagrebec (Zagreb, 1669 - Zagreb, 1742), a kajkavian preacher and storywriter. Since his only work - Pabulum spirituale ovium christianarum ... / Hrana duhovna, ovčic kerščanskeh ... - was published in 5 books (volume I in Zagreb in 1715, volume II in Klagenfurt in 1718, volume III in Zagreb in 1723, volume IV in Zagreb in 1727 and volume V in Zagreb in 1734) comprising of more than 3000 pages, this paper discusses the last, fifth book from 1734. The poetics of the sermons written by Zagrebec are also researched with special emphasis on fauna.

Keywords

kajkavian storytellers; Štefan Zagrebec; Hrana duhovna; sermon; animal

Hrčak ID:

25585

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25585

Publication date:

7.5.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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