METAPJESNIŠTVO SLAVONSKIH ROMANTIČARA

Abstract

The paper examines the characteristics of metapoetry of Slavonian Romantics as a theo-retical-literary genre hybrid in which the Romantic myth of poetic creative powers was (re)created through various metatextual strategies and the Romantic idea of the autono¬my of artistic work was promoted, thus contributing to the constitution of Romantic poetics in Croatian literature. It is also established that the genre, in addition to work¬ing on the autonomization of literature, was characterized by supporting and reflecting the 19th-century Croatian national-cultural identification processes. Par¬nassus imagery was used to metaphorically indicate the value of Slavonian literary heritage as a component of Croatian literature and represent the work on the develop¬ment of a unique Croatian national literature and the establishment of a national literary canon.