Professional paper
DISEASE AS A CULTURAL PHENNOMENON IN SHORT STORIES NEZASITNOSTI I BIJEDA AND PRED SVJETLOM
Ivona Smolčić
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract
Vjenceslav Novak is recognised as the best fruitful follower of the Croatian socio-realist expression. Social strata and their destinies are the fous within his romanesk works. Allaround portrait of 19th century Croatian society and it's diversity as its principle quality serve as integral part of his realist attention to details. Nezasitnost i bijeda and Pred svjetlom touch upon extreme cultural peculiarities of two opposing collectives. The fabulae which they create comes from the interaction between the rich and the poor, as well as their identities. The social polarity is caused by the confrontation of the collectives cultural peculiarities. The interaction between disease and culture is possible to translate in the light of postmodernist ideas. The progress of disease as a state of the body that suggests helplessness in predisposed by belonging to social endangered groups. The goal is to define sicness and health within a socio-humanist framework. This essay's goal will be to prove the connection between the beginning and progress of disease amoung the members of a socially endangered group. Moreover, their additional stigmatisation which stems from the metaphorical significance of their state of body will be considered aswell. Furthermore, the connection between disease and cities, as focal point of capitalist economy, in terms of crucial principle of deeplening social inequalities will be questioned. In the end the objectiv of this essay is to determine is all mentioned merely a fact of Novak's realism or there is the tendency that disease wiewed through the concept of mortality threatens all social strata.
Keywords
town, identity, collective, metaphor, disease
Hrčak ID:
334865
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Publication date:
22.12.2024.
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