Original scientific paper
Cvijeta Pavlović
Abstract
Three Croatian treatments of the Biblical book of Judith are analysed in the paper: Marko Marulić: Judita (1501), Miro Gavran: Judita (2001) and Boris Senker: Pobjednica Judit (2002-2004). These works recast the character of the Old Testament heroine in complex operations, endeavours to meet the reader’s/spectator’s horizon of expectations coming to the fore, while an equal stress is placed upon the author’s erudition as he plays with the traditional fabula. These three treatments have been produced in three genres: the epic, the novel and the drama. In the context of the tradition of the given literary kinds, the narrative and dramaturgical procedures throw light on the aesthetic formations of the Renaissance and post-modernism, and respond to issues concerning the metamorphoses the Judith character had to pass through to remain an interesting subject through the ages. Especial attention is paid to the problem of the female character, the tragic heroine, who evades the role of victim and emerges as vanquisher. A particular feature of all the Croatian Judiths, in conjunction with a character that earns for her the quality of being set apart and solitary, is the area of her provocativeness,of which all the authors have made abundant use.
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Hrčak ID:
11914
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Publication date:
22.4.2007.
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