PRAVAŠKI HUMORISTIČKO-SATIRIČKI LISTOVI KAO PRENOSITELJI POLITIČKIH PORUKA 80-IH GODINA 19. STOLJEĆA
PARTY OF RIGHTS' HUMORIST-SATIRICAL NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES AS CARRIERS OF POLITICAL MESSAGES IN THE 1880s

Summary/Abstract: The quick accession of the Party of Rights (SP) movement in the 1880s was followed by various publishing activities. The followers of SP were publishing political and literary newspapers, magazines, brochures, almanacs and calendars, as well as several humorist-satirical newspapers - Vragoljan (The Rogue), Bič (The Whip}, Tries (Slam), Novi Bič (The New Whip), Osa (The Wasp), Ćuk (The Owl), Stipavac (The Scorpion) - which were in that period the characteristics of the SP journalism, as other political parties in the Bana! Croatia usually did not publish such newspapers. Since their coming to the Croatian political scene the SP was the most radical critic of the political, economical, cultural and moral situation in which the Croatian nation was situated, and the humorist-satirical newspaper were the most an adequate form of journalism for expressing critical judgments and remarks, which was primarily used to affect the emotions of readers. The SP humor and satire ''whipped" and ridiculed out the authorities and power, amorality, hypocrisy, arrogance, vanity and poltroonery, that is all faults and deformations that are according to the opinion of the author present in the society, but the emphasis was however placed on political occasions and relationships, as well as on prominent public figures.

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