Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32004/k.57(258).1-2.3
KRIZMANIĆ’S KAJKAVIAN PROSE RENDERING OF JOHN MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST"
Kristina Grgić
; Odsjek za komparativnu književnost Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Abstract
Abstract
Kajkavian prose rendering of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674), penned by Ivan Krizmanić (1827), occupies a distinguished place in Croatian culture as the first, and until recently, the only integral translation of this poem (succeeded by Mate Maras's new translation as late as 2013), that appeared at the very beginnings of Anglo-Croatian literary transfers. Nevertheless, it had been relegated to the margins of Croatian linguistic and cultural history, as part of the Kajkavian linguistic and literary tradition that was suppressed in favour of the Shtokavian dialect, standardised by the National Revival Movement shortly after the completion of Krizmanić’s translation.
In line with the recent attempts at revalorisation of Krizmanić's work as a translator and the (Pre)Revival Kajkavian literature and culture in general, which also brought forth the first printed version of Krizmanić’s translation of “Paradise Lost” (2005), the paper analyses its key aspects and merits. Emphasis is placed on Krizmanić’s attempts at reconciling its educational and informative with its literary dimension – that is, on his endeavours to familiarise the intended audience with Milton’s text and its encyclopaedic erudition, while facing the challenges and limits of transferring its complex poetic language into Kajkavian prose. Krizmanić’s reinscription of Milton’s glorified Early Modern classic in Kajkavian literary language thus emerges as a fruitful blend of the Kajkavian, English and European literary traditions, as well as of the Enlightenment and (Pre)Romantic tendencies, and also as an integral part of the wider European reception of Milton’s poem that began on a larger scale in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Keywords
Keywords: Ivan Krizmanić; John Milton; Paradise Lost; literary translation
Hrčak ID:
324335
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Publication date:
28.6.2024.
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