Komemorativne svečanosti i proizvodnja svjetovnih Svetaca Gundulićeva slavlja u hrvatskoj književnosti 19. st.
Commemorative ceremonies and the production of Gundulić's cultural Saints celebrations in Croatian literature of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: Secularization of public space in 18th and 19th Century was connected with broader aesthetic, cultural and political changes that led Croatian literature of this time to thorough processes. Sacral aura, as Aleida Assmann demonstrated, has been transmitted from religious to the cultural and artistic (especially literary) space that served as the main point of national legitimization. At this point, only aesthetical autonomy, as Peter Bürger clearly demonstrates, assures adequate its pedagogical role in society. That seemingly paradox assures understanding and placing canon writers in national and “universal” culture and society. This paper deals with commemorative practices as a privileged forms in production culture of memory that generate social and aesthetic values. 19th Century Croatian literature affirms baroque author Ivan Gundulić as a grounding stone of collective identity and a greatest symbolic value. As a canon writer and a cultural icon, he was declared to be “founding father” of national literature. His commemorative ceremonies during organized in 1838, 1888 and 1893. revealed recognizable common pattern that was the result of actual changes, cultural transfers and, as J. Leerssen pointed out, inter-national displays. Although all this festivals has been organized in Ivan Gundulić's honor, following common pattern, they were clearly showing broader changes in the ways that literature posits itself in broader social space.

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