Review article
Matija Antun and Josip Stipan Relkovic: Framework for creative Memories
Ružica Pšihistal
; Faculty of philosophy, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Abstract
Matija Antun and Josip Stipan Relković – father and son – one a military frontier officer fighting for the interest of the emperor, the other a priest serving in parishes of Slavonia, have both marked Slavonian literary and cultural history of the second half of the 18th century. Literary chronicles which contain only informative, selective and linear recollection that places chosen literary protagonists into anticipated compartments limited by poetic and ideological factors, stored Matija Antun in their memory as the great one. They only incidentally mention Josip Stipan as his great father’s heir. However, the purpose of this article is not to make an entire literary and historical revalorisation and the reversal of the existing hierarchical relationship between the two prominent members of the Relković family, but to inspire processes of creative reminiscence in order to bring both of them and their literary work back into our creative memory: by materializing ephemeral images of the experienced reality both Satir and Kućnik create room for reminiscence of the old Slavonia.
Keywords
Enlightenment; , creative reminiscence; neo-classicistic poetry; Slavonian literature
Hrčak ID:
36309
URI
Publication date:
26.5.2006.
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