MATIJA ANTUN I JOSIP STIPAN RELKOVIĆ: OKVIR ZA KREATIVNO PAMĆENJE
MATIJA ANTUN AND JOSIP STIPAN RELKOVIĆ: A FRAMEWORK FOR CREATIVE REMINISCENCE

Summary/Abstract: Matija Antun and Josip Stipan Relković – father and son – one a military frontier officer fighting for the interest of the emperor, the other a priest serving in parishes of Slavonia, have both marked Slavonian literary and cultural history of the second half of the 18th century. Literary chronicles which contain only informative, selective and linear recollection that places chosen literary protagonists into anticipated compartments limited by poetic and ideological factors, stored Matija Antun in their memory as the great one. They only incidentally mention Josip Stipan as his great father’s heir. However, the purpose of this article is not to make an entire literary and historical revalorisation and the reversal of the existing hierarchical relationship between the two prominent members of the Relković family, but to inspire processes of creative reminiscence in order to bring both of them and their literary work back into our creative memory: by materializing ephemeral images of the experienced reality both Satir and Kućnik create room for reminiscence of the old Slavonia.

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