Preliminary communication
Literary Creation on The Island of Korčula In The 19th Century
Goran Kalogjera
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka , Hrvatska
Abstract
The literary process on Korčula during the 19th century reflects the spirit of the alienated and estranged Dalmatia that struggled for its Croatian language and literature in the Croatian languageduring that whole century, in which it finally succeeded. We see the debt to Italian culture and literature in Korčula in the occasional and laudatory poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which is mainly in the spirit of the Italian occasional poetry, in which the form of thesonnetdominates. Among the important names who published their works at that time, there are no, unfortunately, more important literary names. The only exception is Nikola Španić, an alienated and rebelling literate. In the later years of the 19th century, the most important names are those of Stjepan Kastrapeli and Petar Franasović. Although the value of their prose texts is rather modest, we can detect in them the movements towards pre-romanticism, romanticism and pre-realism. If we want to answer the question whether Korĉula responded to the challenges of time, especially in terms of literary reception, we can answer affirmatively, but with very modest literary yields, which is more of a literary-historical and much less aesthetic importance.
Keywords
Korčula; literature; occasional poetry; prose works
Hrčak ID:
259679
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Publication date:
22.11.2015.
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