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Antologijske stihove pjesme Doći će vrijeme napisao je Veselko Koroman davno prije Domovinskoga rata, proročki najavivši novo sutra za njegov blagi narod. Progonjen je zbog nje, ocijenjen kao subverzivan, hrvatski nacionalist, podrivač društvenoga poretka… A, zanesen, napisao je tek ono o čemu je sanjao, o čemu su snili i naraštaji i prije njega i skupa s njim… Napisao je to tako djetinje čisto, tako neiskvareno časno, tako dirljivo zaljubljeno, tako neskriveno čeznutljivo… Čeznuo je e za onim na što će još godinama čekati, pišući kroz njih još tisuće zlatnih redaka, sve do sudbonosnoga vremena zalaska 20. stoljeća.
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Tekst uz pojavak stihozbirke Pere Pavlovića s naslovom Vrutak, stručak, sinje blago; izd. Društvo hrvatskih književnika, Zagreb, 2009.
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Teško je govoriti o jednoj Pavlovićevoj zbirci izolirano, jer je Pavlovićeva poezija u sebi toliko stamena, po vrutku iz kojega izbija toliko koherentna, homogena, tako da svaka od njih, unatoč svojim specifičnostima, podrazumijeva cjelinu njegova pjesništva. Kad to ne bismo imali u vidu i ograničavali se na samo jednu zbirku, govorili bismo o ovoj poeziji parcijalno, pa bi nam i zaključci bili takvi. Ne znam što o tome misle drugi, i jesu li do sličnih zaključaka došli, ali meni je, kažem ponovno, svaka Pavlovićeva zbirka u odnosu na cjelinu njegove poezije samo pars pro toto.
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Review of: Pero Pavlović, Ljubav (A zemlja riječ zori), Naklada K. Krešimir, Zagreb, 2008
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Review of: Pero Pavlović, Hortus Dei, Synopsis, Zagreb - Sarajevo, 2016.
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Interview with Pero Pavlović by Oliver Cvitković
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Collection of poems "Toplina metafore" by Nikolina Todorović ("Voljela bih učiniti sa tobom ono što vjetar čini stablima", "Pljuskovi", "Dodiri", "Tatino veliko pijanstvo", "Porodična anamneza (ženska)", "Mama priča o ratu", "Prvi dani izolacije", "Svadba", "Pozorište u kuhinji", "Vanredno stanje").
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The paper examines Pavao Ritter Vitezović’s ability to manoeuvre within several different emotional communities through a combination of historical analysis of networks and the method of distant reading from the perspective of the history of emotions. Vitezović’s Latin poetic epistles sent to actual addressees in the period from 1701 to 1703 are used as the main source for the digital-textual analysis, however, the entire corpus of his epistles created in the period from 1676 to 1712 is also taken into account. The paper critically tests the possibility of using the approach of distant reading or macroanalysis on a small amount of text in combination with qualitative analysis or "close reading" as an analytical procedure for historical-emotional research.
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Part of Chapter 2. The Ganga and a verse from the book in preparation “Ganga – Osebujno pučko pivanje”
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This article examines Dino Pešut's novel Tatin sin (Daddy's Boy, 2020) and Espi Tomičić's monodrama Your Love Is King (2020) in the context of Croatian queer coming-of-age narrative and post-Yugoslav literary culture more broadly. In particular, I focus on the theme of mourning for the ailing, working class parent in order to explore the intersection of sexuality, class, and national/ethnic origin in the literary and rhetorical staging of queer selfhood in contemporary Croatian literature. Drawing on psychoanalytical frameworks, specifically as elaborated and revised by queer and affect theory, I argue that mourning in these works should be seen as both a psychic and political “drama” of negotiating a future for a queer subject—a process characterized by ambivalence, uncertainty, and interminability that is often attributed to melancholia. While both Pešut and Tomičić initially cast the working-class parent as a melancholy object, enveloped in shame and silence, they also inscribe familial as well as one’s own sexual/gender “otherness” within the broader space of Croatian literary culture, thereby transforming the muteness of melancholia into textual and performative sites of public mourning. The article concludes by examining the figure of nesting—sexual, gender, class, and national/ethnic—“closets” in contemporary Croatian literature and the possibility of their cultural disassembling.
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Dubravka Ugrešić describes in both her novels, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and The Ministry of Pain, a new perspective regarding the concept called exile. This term is portrayed as an experience which has the role to mark the characters’ initiatory road to maturity from all points of view. The connection between the characters and their homeland remains untouched with the help of yugo-nostalgy, which can be described as the attachment towards a country that does not exist nowadays. The characters’ identity is placed under the sign of the doubt from the moment in which they arrive in an unknown territory and the only solution to rediscover themselves and to reconfigure the mental image of Yugoslavia is to find relief in their memories.
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This article is based on Škreb’s concept of literature as inseparable from the social and historical context. This anthropological basis is used for the analysis of the crisis phenomenon centred on the family system in the novels Unterstadt by Ivana Šojat and Restoran Dalmacija by Jagoda Marinić. In addition to the study of thematic, compositional, and genre features of the selected novels, the aim of the comparative analysis is to see the way in which literature contextualizes crisis in contemporary discourse. By using the theoretical determinants of previous research on crisis, family, and memory archiving, the article explores and compares the causes and indicators of family crisis, as well as reactions to it, thus contextualizing literature. This requires an analysis beyond the classical structuralist analysis and broadens the horizon of the literary work, therefore,the article will use the postclassical or new narratology, which is, in addition to the closed world of the novel, also oriented on the context. For this reason, the approach to analysis is to a certain extent interdisciplinary since the study of crisis, generation, and memory in literature requires a sociological, cultural, literary, and historical approach to obtain the overall understanding and interpretation of a novel in a wider context. Previous research on these novels has not focused on the experience of crisis within the framework of the family system, therefore this article provides new perspectives on the contextual character of the family crisis in contemporary literature, on the direct relation of the family to other social phenomena, and a new perspective in the research of the contemporary generational novel as a hybrid genre form.
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The article analyses the traces of video art aesthetics in the poetry of Branko Čegec, one of the “Croatian poets of the language experience,” as Zvonimir Mrkonjić termed that generation of poets, and of metalanguage poetry, as Goran Rem collectively called Čegec and the poets thematizing the aforementioned language experience. The aim is to address the elements of literary contact with the language of video art, that is, to approach the poetry recognizable as video art (of Nam June Paika and Laurie Andersson) due to its concrete, linguistic, material. The very term “language experience poetry” denotes that its main feature is the linguistic coding or meta-linguistics, thus the article also deals with the awareness of traces from other arts, primarily video art. The article is based on the definitions of intermediality, media, postmodernism, and video art. The analysis of selected works of art in this article emphasises the video elements of visual and auditory imagery, as well as provides new interpretations of Čegec’s poetry.
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The exile has become a topic which managed to catch the attention of many people in the past few centuries because it explores the multiple ways in which a person can change his/ her life perceptions during the process of displacement from one place to another. Recently, the theme of exile has been discussed and studied over Romanian, English or Universal literature lessons, school subjects which are taught during high school, and it succeeded in receiving positive feedback from the students. This situation proves that the topic is still current. This article focuses on the effects which the exile inflicts upon the characters from The Ministry of Pain and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, novels which are discussed during the Universal literature lessons and which were written by an European writer, Dubravka Ugresič. Their way of perceiving life changes in the moment they have lost contact with Yugoslavia because they feel that they do not belong anywhere. In both her novels, the author manages to create a special bond between the characters and their homeland which proves to be essential for the exiles. In this process of adapting to an unknown space, the characters think that they have lost their identity and the memories which bring nostalgy represent the last threads of connection with their homeland.
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The historical development of the Croatian language during the 18th century is the most interesting period in terms of language standardization. Numerous experts and standardologists of the Croatian language debate on this topic from many different points of view and interpret differently the beginning of standardization of the Croatian language. Some consider it to be the middle of the 18th century (Brozović), others place it at the beginning of the 17th century (Oczkowa). Literary works such as catechisms reflect changes in the historical development of the Croatian language. So far, they have not been sufficiently researched from a linguistic standpoint. The usage of catechisms as Catholic literature and their use and printing in major publications during the 18th and 19th centuries in areas where Croatian was read (including Bosnia and Herzegovina) testify to their readability and popularity, and this also reflected the use of some catechisms printed in the 18th century which were read in schools until the end of the 19th century (Babuša). It is also interesting that catechisms written in Croatian with the dominance of one of the spoken idioms were read and used in schools dominated by another Croatian idiom. Some linguistic studies on catechisms suggest that some were written with a dialectic idiom (Moguš, Kolenić). This points to a certain role of catechisms in Croatian literature, and then to the historical development of the Croatian language in the prestandard period in relation to the norm and normization of the Croatian terminology. The example of three names (sobstvo, zlamenje, ponukovati) shows how one can prove a lexical norm in a historical context.
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The paper analyzes the cultural, literary, and political activities of two right-wing politi¬cians and priests coming from the Imotski region, namely don Ivo Prodan and fra Josip Vergilije Perić.A particular emphasis is placed on their disagreement with the Rijeka Resolution, the struggle for Croatian independence, the attitude towards the Serbian people, and the desire to unite Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croatian countries, espe¬cially after the 1908 Annexation. Prodan, the founder of the first right-wing group in Dalmatia, a deputy in The Dalmatian Parliament and The Imperial Council, advocated the full national, territorial, and state integration of the Croatian population and the Croatian state on the basis of natural and historical Croatian state law.In a peaceful and legitimate way, within the framework of Austro-Hungary, that is, trialism, he sought to reach the ultimate goal of creating a fully independent and united Croatia.Perić, also a deputy in The Dalmatian Parliament and The Imperial Council, gave famous speeches in defense of Croatian sacred ideals, and sought help for his native land.His activity is important in the social, cultural, political, and literary fields, where he distinguished himself by works such as the novella Kula od uzdaha (1903, Vienna), Pjesme i poslanice (1909, Zadar), and Poslanica slavodobitnim Balkancima (1913), in which Croatia’s future is seen in internal harmony as well as in harmony with neighbors.
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The notions of subject and identity are of key interest in various branches of contemporary literary theory, but also in other disciplines (Peternai Andrić 2015). However, in the closed fortress of academic hermeticism, the discourse on identity is ruled by a “true terminological haze”, so the notion of identity is not only widely used, but also massively abused (Nenadić 2020). Due to the need to concretize the term “identity” (Petković 2020), and as a contribution to the interdisciplinary development of literary science, the paper will define the newly conceived literary theory term emotional identity, which is a blind spot in literary science. The representation of emotional identity will be explored on the example of the contemporary Croatian psychological drama In a Room Slightly Wider Than Skin (2020) by Ivana Sajko. Its specific classification will be determined with regard to the prevailing emotion (fear) of the contemporary dramatic protagonist, which becomes a feature of her literary emotional (depressive) identity, and which is encouraged in the drama by the world’s anti-pandemic (self) isolation and social atmosphere of alienation due to the virus. The literary-theoretical notion of emotional identity will be defined according to the anti-essentialist understanding of identity. In doing so, the psychoanalytic and medical concept will be taken over, which corresponds to the fact of emotional/affective turn in literary science, when many authors of studies on emotions take into account knowledge from non-native disciplines (Oatley, Jenkins 2003; Robinson 2005; Barrett, Lewis, Haviland-Jones 1993). Emotionally depressed literary identity will be correlated with narcissistic identity, and the term emotional disability or identity equal to disability (Alfirević 2021) will be presented in this context. The “emotional label” of the literary narrative and the “literary emotional function”, newly conceived literary theoretical concepts aimed at, together with the theory of emotional identity and emotional code, methodologically connect traditional (post-)structural-ism (semiotics) and modern emotionalism, which has never been the case before way of reading/approach in the research of literary and artistic text in scientific methodological practice, neither in world nor in domestic science of literature. This paper seeks to contribute to the poststructuralist research paradigm of literary identities, as well as to emotionalism as a literary science in development (Peternai Andrić 2020), which is insufficiently researched. The depressive (post) covidal atmosphere influenced the narrative structuring of the coronavirus as a new literary character, and the paper presents/ proposed the phenomenon of corona-literature (hence this corona-drama) as a contemporary literary paradigm.
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