In Defense of Futile Effort – Joanna Rapacka and the Study of Croatian Literary History Cover Image

Obrona wysiłków daremnych – Joanna Rapacka i badania historii literatury chorwackiej
In Defense of Futile Effort – Joanna Rapacka and the Study of Croatian Literary History

Author(s): Tomislav Bogdan
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Croatian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Joanna Rapacka; early modern Croatian literature; reconstruction of historical poetics; research of sources; deconstruction of national myths; critique of national essentialism;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses two methods from the scholarly oeuvre of a great Polish Croatian and Slavic studies scholar Joanna Rapacka (1939–2000). These two methods are very interesting and in a particular manner topical, especially in Croatian philology: due to a reconstruction of historical poetics and research of sources, and because of a deconstruction of national myths and national essentialism in literary historiography. These two approaches are closely linked in an attempt to understand an older, pre-modern literary culture in its original, epochal context.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 315-327
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish