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The paper deals with poetics of Expressionism and anti-war position in Miroslav Krleža and Ahmed Muradbegović’s dramatic works. It specially focused the plays Vučjak by M. Krleža and Pomrčina krvi by A. Muradbegović. In this connection, particular attention was paid to the main characters of these dramatic texts – Krleža’s Krešimir Horvat and Muradbegović’s Ekrembeg.
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The novel Sky on the Earth by Jasminka Domaš is a family chronicle whose main bearers are the women from three generations of a Jewish family from Zagreb. The structure of the novel is twofold: on the first sight totally ordinary life story from the first layer is being interrupted by associative connections with the story about love past of grandma Haja, a photographer who had been taken to India by her work, then with the story of war childhood and growing up of mother Ada and with reflections of her daugther, girl Lior, who is faced with a life choice (choosing of the study). The interlacing of the everyday life with the memories from the past or with the reflections about the future is established by the associative value of particular motifs (applied things, food, social and religious customs of the Jewish and Indian culture) and daily situations that remind of some of the special events from the character’s past. What has to been emphasized is the spiritual relation towards the tragic Jewish destiny during the Second World War and migrations the family was forced on. The female characters of the novel and father Hagaj accept their existence as an inseparable intersection of their own individual life with the destiny of God’s Elected nation, which is visible in the connecting of their own life situations with situations from the Old Testament. In deep respect to the gift of life their relation towards the family and national losses outgrow the tragic leaning on the spiritual system of Jewish religion and Kabbalah, mystical doctrine about God and the world. So the family chronicle has not become the true historical chronicle, but has outgrown into a unique experience of the world and life as a dimension in which all time cathegories coexist, and all cultural boundaries are being outgrown by love.
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The paper questions the similarities between three authors’ discourses from different national-cultural habitus – Bosnian writer Dž. Karahasan, Serbian writer M. Pavić and Croatian writer J. Horvat. Three key texts from each of the authors are analyzed in this paper − Istočni diwan, Hazarski rečnik and Az. All these three novels are treated as untypical examples of postmodern discourse, which on the formal-structurally level strive towards pronounced conceptualization while on the level of content and worldview they don’t give up corresponding with systems oriented towards cognition – with science, philosophy and religion. All these three authors maximally bring to consciousness the novelistic form, using it as a matrix in an attempt to reach the code of cognizing the world and man. The common basic point of reference of the all these three novelistic practices in this is syntactic and semantic-related questioning of the principles of reflecting a part in the whole and vice versa – the key motif, and also the mode of presentation of said reflection, in Karahasan is arabesque, in Pavić a dictionary, and in Horvat geometry and arithmetic. Besides that, on the level of syntactic substructure all these three novelistic practices are characterized by specific inlay types of discourse and metatextual “accessories” of the text.
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On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of Nikola Martić Under the melody of ringing words, a quilling pen stuck in difficult and unpleasant times, stuck in miomirs; in the sounds of spring, summer, autumn, winter... it got stuck and entangled in the south, in the Mediterranean - the origin of civilization, while the words are being spelled, they slip away from us, they slip out of too much love: from poetic rapture, they wave, they become wild: chains climb and fall - and spirits before the inner freedom brought and spelled by the word, limited by nothing: inner freedom - he sings. In Miljković's words, as the slaves used to sing about her and pursue her until she disappeared. The fairy tale roars, vigours and plays its game, not thinking about the strict form - not even thinking about what is said; releasing and letting out words to sail the sea, land and sky. The fire is burning - internal and external!
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The article focuses on works important to Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian gender literature written after the breakup of Yugoslavia – the novel My Name is Damjan by Suzana Tratnik and Decent Life, acollection of short lesbian stories from former Yugoslavia. The goal of the text is to present the position of the ‘alternative’ in a society that has difficulty accepting ‘others’, and how the life story of characters manages to build an idea of the difficulties, acceptance and rejection of people who decided to openly declare their sexual orientation that differs from the mainstream one. The attitude of relatives or strangers towards members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Slavic cultural space is examined. The aim is to bring out similarities in the plot and thematic patterns that are present in the analysed works of the most recent literature from the region, as well as between the stylistic specifics that turn out to be key in the analysis of queer literature.
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The fate of the German minority living in the Slavic countries before World War II has become the subject of numerous novels in recent years, not only those whose authors witnessed dramatic events that took place after the end of the war, but also young writers who only learned about the fate of marginalized groups after 1989. Thanks to literature, images of post-war history which until then had been a „blank spot”, started to circulate. The German inhabitants of Brno (Tučková) or Osijek (Šojat-Kuči) were for many years wiped from official memory, erased from historical studies, doomed to social exclusion, loss of their own language and identity. Interestingly, oblivion and erasure also encompass the city space where the characters of the analyzed novels once lived. Selected literary texts make it possible to trace how the image of memory is constructed and how it is manipulated.
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This paper analyses and interprets the poetic work of Irena Matijašević from the points of discourse stylistics and discourse semiotics. The four published collections by this contemporary author are here read using the concept of interdiscursivity. The interpretative analytic insight into this poetic opus is based on the thesis on interdiscursivity as fundamental property of the author’s poetics and style. After a short introduction on interdiscursivity as theoretically and stylistically postulated category, this paper abstracts analytically different discursive units and interpretations of their stylistic and semantic implications inside a particular poem, cycle, collection, and the work as a whole. The paper aims to offer a closer reading of Matijašević’s poetic work with the help of the methodological framework in question because, so far, readings of her work have been reduced only to insights into individual collections provided by critiques and reviews. Besides that, the above mentioned theoretical and methodological step tends to represent the beginning of a more systematic approach to the poetics and style of Matijašević’s poetry.
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U radu je naglasak na znanstvenoj, prikladno koncipiranoj monografiji prof. dr. Šimuna Muse koja u svojoj obuhvatnosti istraživačkoga, kritičkoga pristupa daje cjelovit prikaz života i djela Ilije Jakovljevića, koje je, nakon gotovo pola stoljeća zaborava, izašlo u javnost. Zbrisano s književne i kulturne scene diktatom totalitarne ideologije, konačno zadobiva zasluženu valorizaciju i objektivnu percepciju u umjetničkoj razvedenosti koje ga smještaju na vidno mjesto povijesti hrvatske književnosti. Život ovoga pisca, podrijetlom Mostarca, odvjetnika, novinara i publicista, tragično je završio pod nerazjašnjenim okolnostima. Njegov književni opus, opsežan i raznolik, nakon ove monografije postaje zapaženiji i mnogo bliži kritičkoj i čitateljskoj recepciji. Zbog nesalomljivosti svoga svjetonazora, kršćanske etike i kritičnosti spram društvene zbilje, proživljava progonstvo i zatvore, što ga odvodi i u smrt. Raznolika i bogata književna produkcija Ilije Jakovljevića nije uvijek najvećega umjetničkog dometa, o čemu zasnovano govori Musa, ali ističući kako roman U mraku i Lirika nevremena zavrjeđuju interes publike te školskih i akademskih krugova.
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The paper considers a widespread use of the term “women’s writing” and the reception of French feminist theory in Croatian literary scholarship from the 1980s. Discussion focuses on the possibility as to whether the wide application of women’s writing is connected to its theoretical reception, and whether theoretical discussions about French feminist theory can function as a corrective of the current moment. The paper offers a survey of disagreements about the concept of women’s writing that arose already in the 1980s, and a theoretically and methodologically more conscious turn towards women’s literature in the post-Yugoslav context. The discussion, then, points to the one-sided reception of Irena Vrkljan and Dubravka Ugrešić as belonging primarily to women’s writing, which downplays important elements of their works – primarily the modernist and avant-garde influences. Special emphasis is placed on Brnjica za vještice (A Witch’s Bridle, 2021) by Dubravka Ugrešić, as a relevant diagnosis of the contemporary literary field. Finally, the paper argues that there are valuable claims for the ongoing theoretical discussion about the relevant feminist terminology in the regional reception of the French feminist theory.
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The eighties represent the golden age of female prose in Croatian literature, although we can still find its seeds at the end of the 19th century, to Marija Jurić Zagorka and Dragojla Jarnević. Within the feminist movement (promoted intensively by Lada Čale Feldman, Renata Jambrešic Kirin, Andrea Zlatar Violić, Helena Sablić Tomić and Nataša Govedić), appears at the end of the 20th century the phrase female writing as a notion that tries to draw attention to the specifics of the vision feminine, of the value system, of the problems presented in the literary works in which female intimacy is asserted in a clearly defined male-female dichotomy.
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The paper begins by asserting that the historical novels of Ksaver Šandor Gjalski have received special treatment in Croatian literary historiography, which tends to ascribe to them a more a documentary and historiographic rather than liter-ary value. This paper will analyse the Romantic, realist and modernist features of Gjalski’s historical novels Osvit. Slike iz tridesetih godina (Dawn. Pictures from the [18]30s) (1892) and Za materinsku riječ. Slike iz četrdeset osme godine (For the Maternal Word. Pictures from [18]48) (1906). In the light of theories of histories as stories (narratives), this paper will indicate that their so-called documentary value is attributable to literary strategies that are used to interpret the past they repre-sent in a specific way, and not to record what is assumed to be the authentic past.
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On selected parts of the text of the Book of Genesis in Croatian Glagolitic breviaries of the 14th and 15th centuries, we will try to show that the language of these texts is not uniform, that it cannot be characterized as Church Slavonic language in all cases, and that even in the language of the biblical text we can find various elements of the vernacular language, i.e. Old Croatian. That’s why the language of the biblical texts in the Croatian Glagolitic breviaries can be used in some segments for the research of Old Croatian, although the professional literature mostly claims the opposite, referring to the fact that the language of the biblical text is only conservative Old Church Slavonic.
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The paper explores the motif of exile in the novel The Museum of Un- conditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić. The emphasis is on the great influence of exile on the construction of identity in the period of post-war trauma. The theme of displacement from the space of identity permeates the entire work, which puts the question of identity at its centre. On the basis of theoretical assumptions of imagology and postmodern theories of identity, there is a violation of the concept of collective identity resulting from the disintegration of Yugoslavia, but also of individual identity that has been disrupted. Exile in this novel means the abolition of the space of identity, because the subject is in an unframed time and space. The individual experience of an exile is always linked to a collective identity because it is a matter of common loss. An analysis of the motifs of exile led to the conclusion that the stories in this novel by Dubravka Ugrešić are stories about individuals between whom there is no sense of community.
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In this paper, two works of science fiction, distanced from each other both spatially and tem- porally (as they belong to different national literatures) are analysed: Orwell’s novel 1984 and Darko Macan’s and Tatjana Jambrišak’s short story „Besmrtni slučaj“ (“An Immortal Case”), as an example of Croatian science fiction from the 2000s. This research is focused on the ways in which these respective authors textually construct emotions within the framework of a fictional perspectivisation of the future. Contemporary constructivist approaches to the emotions show that they are an important part of cognitive processes and also culturally conditioned entities. This work proves that emotional constructs of the future can be taken into consideration when dealing with the basic genre characteristics of science fiction. This means that they participate in the creation of a conceptual breakthrough of the paradigm of our episteme, that they are a part of cognitive estrangement, or of the fictional novum validated by epistemic logic. Thus, this topic, when approaching science fiction, despite the national literature or period to which such a work may belong, may contribute to further research regarding the possible cultural conditions of the emotions of the future, as well as furthering knowledge on the characteristics of the genre of modern science fiction.
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Review of: Mate Grbavac: Ljubuški pjesnički zbornik, Ljubuški, 2022.
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Review of: Zdravko Nikić: Krik s križa, Ogranak Matice hrvatske Čitluk i Ogranak Matice hrvatske Grude, Čitluk – Grude, 2023.
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Review of: Mijo Tokić: Breme te tvoji nosi, izabrane pjesme, Društvo hrvatskih književnika Herceg Bosne – Ogranak Matice hrvatske Tomislavgrad, Mostar – Tomislavgrad, 2023.
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Review of: Berislav Majhut. 2022. Hrvatska dječja književnost okreće list. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. 410 str. ISBN 978-953-341-152-1.
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