BLAZE KONESKI’S LITERARY AND HISTORICAL VIEWS OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN MACEDONIA Cover Image

КНИЖЕВНО-ИСТОРИСКИТЕ ПРИЛОЗИ НА БЛАЖЕ КОНЕСКИ ЗА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ 19 ВЕК
BLAZE KONESKI’S LITERARY AND HISTORICAL VIEWS OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN MACEDONIA

Author(s): Marina Cvetanoska
Subject(s): Comparative Linguistics, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: nineteenth century; revival; Macedonian language; national movement

Summary/Abstract: Blaze Koneski’s work consists of many linguistic and literal and historical elaborations of the reviving nineteenth century, which he considers vital for the continuity of the codification process for an autonomous national development of the Macedonian language. According to Koneski, the tendency for an autonomous national development of the Macedonian nation through religious, linguistic and national autonomy is strongly emphasized, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. The subject of this thesis is Koneski’s views related to the literature and the historical conditions and processes in which the Macedonian revivalists worked during the age of the national awakening. Within these frames, Koneski, very analytically and thoroughly, elaborates the key figures of the Macedonian Revival Era. But, at the same time, he points to an interesting idea, i.e. a direction for the time distance as a paradigm of the meaning of success of the cultural and historical processes in the struggle for national autonomy. When writing about his predecessors (from the 19th century), Koneski believes that some of them were rightfully dissatisfied with the success (the national autonomy) achieved in the 19th century, but Koneski’s generation, who has an opportunity to look at this period from a wider cultural and historical base, can see the nineteenth century as a very significant in the continuity and finally, the success in solving the linguistic and national issue. Today, in the 21st century, with much larger distance from these processes in terms of time and history, the revival period and the importance of Blaze Koneski’s work are extremely significant, but at the same time, they are a challenge and an oath to preservation and further continuity.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 78
  • Page Range: 173-179
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Macedonian