METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Brunčić, Dubravka

doi:10.17234/Croatica.69.2

Croatica : Journal for Croatian Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 49 No. 69, 2025.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Dubravka Brunčić ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, Croatia

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APA 6th Edition

Brunčić, D. (2025). METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. Croatica, 49 (69), 17-38. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

MLA 8th Edition

Brunčić, Dubravka. "METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY." Croatica, vol. 49, no. 69, 2025, pp. 17-38. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2. Accessed 18 May 2026.

Chicago 17th Edition

Brunčić, Dubravka. "METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY." Croatica 49, no. 69 (2025): 17-38. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

Harvard

Brunčić, D. (2025). 'METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY', Croatica, 49(69), pp. 17-38. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

Vancouver

Brunčić D. METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. Croatica [Internet]. 2025 [cited 2026 May 18];49(69):17-38. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

IEEE

D. Brunčić, "METATEXTUALITY IN THE OCCASIONAL POETRY OF SLAVONIAN LITERATURE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY", Croatica, vol.49, no. 69, pp. 17-38, 2025. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.69.2

Abstract

The paper analyses metatextual procedures in the occasional poetry of Slavonian writers in the first decades of the 19th century. The analysis is based on the thesis that occasional poems are not exhausted in their pragmatic functionalizations, but that metatextuality represented a form of discursive (self)definition and (self)regulation of literature. Metatextual considerations on the status of literature, creative potential, poetic inspiration, and cultural patronage drew attention to the poetic text as a linguistic artifact and to its potential aesthetic values. Along with the affirmation of Slavonian literary and cultural particularities, occasional poems also promoted the idea of Slavonian regional identity as one of the components of Croatian (Illyrian) linguistic and cultural identity. In this way, Slavonian occasional poetry of the first decades of the 19th century played a role in encouraging the process of nationalization and autonomization of Croatian literature.