Dubrovnik annals, No. 28, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/moxpjhz24m
Sacred, Political, Romantic: Coding Emotions in the Epic Sveti Ivan biskup trogirski i kralj Koloman by Petar Kanavelić
Ivana Brković
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The epic poem Sveti Ivan biskup trogirski i kralj Koloman ("Saint John, the Bishop of Trogir, and King Koloman"), written in the early eighteenth century, is the last work by Petar Kanavelić (1637–1719), and it thematizes a medieval historical event. Following Tasso's poetics and the Dubrovnik epic tradition, the epic emphasizes the intention to please the readers in order to effectively provide moral, religious, and political lessons (XIX, 1-20). Assuming that such an intention also counted on
the emotional impact of the epic, i.e., the corresponding emotional reaction of the reader, the paper examines the literary "performance" of emotions at various textual levels (composition, theme, motifs, figures) and considers its aesthetic persuasiveness as well as social efficacy.
Keywords
Petar Kanavelić; Sveti Ivan biskup trogirski i kralj Koloman ("Saint John, Bishop of Trogir, and King Koloman"); literature and emotions; Baroque epic; religious emotions; political emotions; literary emotions
Hrčak ID:
324921
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Publication date:
23.12.2024.
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