Original scientific paper
Reception of the novel Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića (The marvellous adventures of Hlapić the apprentice) by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Berislav Majhut
; The Faculty of teacher education of the University of Zagreb - Local branche in Petrinja, Croatia
Abstract
In nearly a hundred years of existence, with as many printed editions, the novel Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića (1913) by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić is the most published Croatian children’s novel. It may be that its importance in Croatian children’s literature is even more emphasized by the roles attributed to it and by the titles it has been honoured: the first Croatian children’s novel, paradigm novel, the novel from which it all starts... Only when one begins to read it critically, it becomes clear that up to now unresearched spheres stand in a way of understanding of this cultic literary work. In a light of such a reading offered by this contribution, the view on the former reception of this novel is being changed, because it is shown that from an array of many different perspectives from which Hlapić was attempted to be viewed, the most interesting are its blind spots. What is more, it seems that these spots also share something that has been left out of the range of the so far studies.
Keywords
Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića; reception; Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić; children’s literature; textual criticism
Hrčak ID:
174662
URI
Publication date:
17.4.2008.
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