Pregledni rad
Art Patrons and the National Treasure: A Comparative Reading of the Croatian and Slovenian Context of the Institutionalization of Literature in Pre-Illyrism
Maciej Falski
; Uniwersytet Warszawski, Varšava
Sažetak
The question of literary patronage is part of the debate about the place of literature in the national culture and cultural policy. At the root of the argument is the nowadays almost unanimous presumption that literature should have a special status within social practices, and that the literary life as such should be supported by the state through its specialized institutions. Nonetheless, that view has had a relatively short history, going back to the beginning of the 19th century, and is related to important changes in the European civilization.
The essay focuses on the moment when the ancient regime of feudal order was falling down, as were the social practices related to it, and the new one was still in the offing. The old-time patronage relying on imposing individuals like Zigmund Zois or Maksimilijan Vrhovac was in decline, leaving an opening for collective patronage and civic involvement based on the principle of common usefulness, and thereafter for national institutions which were to implement cultural policy in the name of the nation. Sources from Croatian and Slovene cultural history analysed in this essay reveal the course of this transformation while principally tackling the crucial question, that of the nationalization of literature and its transformation into the instrument of national politics.
Ključne riječi
literary patronage; cultural policy; literary field; reading movement; Illyrism; literary institutions
Hrčak ID:
212200
URI
Datum izdavanja:
11.12.2018.
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