Preliminary communication
SPEAKING OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ERA OF CROATIAN PROTO-REALISM AND REALISM
Vilko Endstrasser
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Discourses on the theme of sexuality in Croatian 19th century prose are presented in this paper. That material made possible a reading off of how traditional social forms functioned and of how they started to implode with the process of modernisation. In analysis of the material, I applied the fundamental guidelines of psychoanalysis and the survey of the development of the semantics of love that was elaborated by Niklas Luhmann. The codes of love expressed in the prose texts analysed dovetail into the overall developmental trends in European society and literature, although with considerable delay and still somewhat tentatively and in an incomplete manner.
Keywords
sexuality; subject; language; society
Hrčak ID:
23200
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2006.
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