Review article
https://doi.org/10.22586/ss.24.1.12
Echoes of the Revival in Slavonia: Ivanišević’s Collection of Manuscripts of Oral (Vernacular) Poems
Krunoslav Matošević
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Abstract
This work discusses and determines the role, i.e. the significance of the collection of manuscripts of oral-literary poems written by Ivan Ivanišević in the context of the echoes of the Revival in Slavonia. The poems were collected and recorded in Svinjar on the Sava River (today’s Davor) and the manuscript represents a valuable contribution to Croatian ethnology, as well as to the research into the activities of the National Revival Movement in the territory of western Slavonia, i.e. Posavina. In spite of the value of the collection, it has not been described and valorised in literature so far. The introduction to the paper provides a very brief explanation of oral history in the 19th century and its role within the activities of the Revival Movement in Croatia. The central part of the paper addresses the development and content, i.e. the structure of Ivanišević’s manuscript; subsequently, special emphasis is placed on the preface or foreword of Ivan Kos who entrusted the manuscript, which reflects the tendencies of Romanticism and the National Revival Movement, to the Matica Hrvatska, for safe-keeping. The end of the paper emphasizes the pattern according to which the poems of the aforementioned corpus holds significant memories for the creation of the cultural identity of the community and attempts to determine the significance of Ivanišević’s collection of manuscripts in the context of the Croation National Revival and its echoes in Slavonia.
Keywords
Croatian National Revival; Slavonia; oral (vernacular) poems; Ivan Ivanišević; identity
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323164
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Publication date:
8.12.2024.
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