Original scientific paper

The Beginnings of Satire in Croatian Literature

Lahorka Plejić Poje ; Faculty of philosophy in Zagreb

Abstract

After an initial definition of satire, the article establishes the texts from medieval and Renaissance literature that are defined in the discipline as satire. Thematic preoccupations in the first Croatian satirical poems are sketched out, with the dominant strategies of the satirical attack and, finally, the occasional invocation of Roman satire by the Croatian satirical writers. It is concluded that in the beginnings of Croatian literature satire came into being sporadically rather than systematically and that apart from at the thematic level there is no significant continuity, that indeed it is more reasonable to speak of multiply repeated beginnings.

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Hrčak ID:

72867

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72867

Publication date:

2.5.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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