Persiflage oder Verherrlichung des k.u.k. Heerführers Conrad von Hötzendorf?

Author(s): Marijan Bobinac / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Ein Artikel über die kriegsstrategischen Kompetenzen des k.u.k. Generalstabschefs Conrad von Hötzendorf, veröffentlicht in der Zagreber Tageszeitung »Obzor« im April 1915 unter dem Titel "Barun Konrad", brachte ihrem Autor Miroslav Krleža nach Kriegsende, im neubegründeten SHS-Königreich, heftige Angriffe ein. Gegen die Vorwürfe der Austrophilie und eines verlogenen Pazifismus polemisierte Krleža – bereits als unerbittlicher Kritiker der politischen Verhältnisse in der Donaumonarchie wie auch im neuen südslawischen Staat profiliert – mehrmals und suchte dabei zu zeigen, wie seine Gegner die literarische Ironie für bare Münze nahmen und im gleichen Zuge für politische Zwecke instrumentalisierten.

Magiczna formuła Schulza

Author(s): Alla Tatarenko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

The texts referring to Bruno Schulz can be divided into two groups: first, those featuring a protagonist of that name, connected with the events from the writer’s life, and second,those in which there reader can recognize some motifs from his fiction or the Schulzean model of the fictional world. The former includes works by the Serbian fiction writers Jovic Acin and Mikhailo Pantic and the Croatian poet Damir Sodan, the latter those bythe Croatian poets Ivan Samia and Delimir Resicki, and the Serbian poet Dragan Boskovic. The Serbian writer’s Mirko Demic’s novel, Amber, Honey, and Sorb, belongsto both groups. In the works of those authors one can find descriptions of Schulz’s deathand the following metamorphoses, similar to those experienced by the characters fromhis short stories. Few writers have been interested in Schulz’s life before World War II– his legend came into being at the moment of his death. Tatarenko presents and explainsthe creative responses to Schulz’s oeuvre and his bio- and necrography by the authorsfrom the former Yugoslavia.

Tекстове за св. Екатерина в хърватската книжнина от XIV– XVIII в.

Author(s): Simeon Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 101/2016

The presented paper offers list of texts about St. Katherine, Alexandrian virgin and martyr, in Croatian literature, written in common Croatian language in XIV–XVIII cent. The paper starts with information about this saint in Greek and Latin cultural tradition. Croatian texts are ordered by genres. Common information about content of each of them is given.

Откровение св. Иоанна Богослова среди православных славян и в южнославянской письменности

Author(s): Iva Trifonova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2016

The article focuses on the history of the Book of Revelation of St. John the Theologian among Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages. The aim is to present its place among the other biblical books, related to Cyril and Methodius’ literary tradition and follow its origin, its way of life and spreading in the Slavia Orthodoxa. The two main versions of the distribution of the book are presented – without interpretations and with the interpretations of St. Andrew of Caesarea, while the specifics of the basic versions of the book are also presented (East Slavonic and South Slavic versions with commentaries, Bosnian Cyrillic version, the earliest Serbian transcript, Croatian Glagolitic fragments, Bulgarian calendar version). An opinion has been expressed that a common initial translation is at the root of all these versions of the book, which was accompanied by interpretations, and probably made in Bulgaria at the end of 9th–10th C. Subsequently, it has been edited at different Times and in different locations, placed in the composition of different collections, or as a separate book.

Опоетизираните Балкани: "Дубровник" и "Сплит" на Бленика

Author(s): Nadezhda Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2016

The Dangerous Book. Observations on the Prose by Danilo Kiš, Aleksandar Hemon and Igor Štiks

Author(s): Ludmila Mindova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The text compares three books by South Slavic authors: A Tomb for Boris Davidovic (1976) by Danilo Kiš, The Lazarus Project (2008) by Aleksandar Hemon, and Elijah’s Chair by Igor Štiks. In different genres, all three books analyse possibilities to defend human rights, and particularly the freedom of speech and thought. In these literary worlds, Europe exists mainly with its philosophical and cultural history, but also as a place with a very long tradition both in the defence and in violation of human freedom. Of course, the book as a main symbol of wisdom and thought is the primary subject of these works, and therefore it is not surprising that their writers devote important space to ‘dangerous books’ and knowledge, and ask about ethic and poetic borders between permission and prohibition.

European and National in Antun Gustav Matoš’s Travel Notes

Author(s): Antoaneta Balcheva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The dichotomy European/national and its creative power has marked profoundly A. Matoš’s worldly and artistic credo. Two distinguished features pervade his works and his travel notes: the French and the Croatian, the modern and the home-grown. The latter two tend to unite the Western taste with the Croatian propensity for sedition. Antun Matoš’s long-term aspirations strive for a well-maintained balance of the two. His travel notes feature imagologic constructs – a realm of tableaux of every manifestation of the nation’s life and mentality, of European culture and civilization, of domestic developments and human manners. It is precisely by means of his travel notes that Antun Matoš recreated the mythological perception of his life as a patriotically disposed bohemian and an exile, whose works were created solely for the sake of art and literature; a person who disregarded largely the rest of the world. It is lofty artistic ideals that make all disharmonies in life disappear. The dynamic relationship between European and national served as a catalyst for the mixed feelings, typical of his works. Their emblematic presence made them ascend as a categorical imperative, which determined the vitality of his creative capacity, and turned them into a basic guideline for his writings.

Музеят – начини на употреба в два балкански романа („Черно мляко”от Елиф Шафак и „Музеят на безусловната капитулация” от Дубравка Угрешич)

Author(s): Veselina Beleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

This article examines the possible concept of the museum in literature – a ‘museum’ not only like a metaphor but also like a specific type of novel. This is an attempt to trace the possible meetings (or usages) of two Balkan novels – Dubravka Ugrešić`s historical museum and Elif Shafak’s literary harem. The focus of the study is on the never-ending quest and the search for human multifacetedness and human completeness. In her autobiographical novel Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood and the Harem Within Elif Shafak is trying to ‘arrange’ her own literary museum. She was able to gather in her ‘collection’ women writers like Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Sevgi Soysal, Halide Edib, Ayn Rand, etc. In The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Dubravka Ugrešić was able to collect, preserve and show (without apparent connection between them) the fragments/photographs/books of her own biography as a kind of ‘museum’ novel.

Hrvatska kulturna i politička stvarnost s kraja 19. i početka 20. stoljeća u Poeziji Rikarda Katalinića Jeretova

Author(s): Nevio Šetić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2014

Rikard Katalinić Jeretov (Volosko, 1869 – Split, 1954) wrote both poetry and prose, although he was better known as a poet than as a prose writer. His poetry – especially the pieces written in the late 19th and early 20th century - is dominated by patriotism: love of the Croatian homeland disunited by the established dualist Habsburg Monarchy. Istria and Dalmatia were in the Austrian, while Banska Croatia (Croatia and Slavonia) belonged to the Hungarian part of the Monarchy. The city and port of Rijeka came under the Hungarian rule in 1868, as well as Medjimurje (part of Zaladska County) and Baranja (part of Baranja County). Bosnia and Herzegovina, also inhabited by many Croats, first became a protectorate of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1878, and then its annexed part in 1908. Following Croatian politics of the time, and being its supporter and promoter, Rikard Katalinić Jeretov significantly contributed with his poetry to the strengthening of the Croatian national consciousness and of the Croatian identity in general. He wanted the Croatian lands to be united, and Croats to feel at home on their own lands. His poetry is mostly represented through traditional poems in which he celebrates events and persons from the Croatian cultural and political life.

MUZEJ, AMERIKA, GYNAECEUM ILI RATIŠTE - GDJE SE ZBIVAJU PRIČE O RATU 90-IH U JUGOSLAVIJI?

Author(s): Ewa Szperlik / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 2/2016

This paper is an attempt to analyze and read the selected prose, i.e. fictional texts about the war in former Yugoslavia, paying particular attention to the category of space—the setting. The works by M. Jergović, N. Veličković, B. Dežulović and A. Lazarevska depict traumatic history of the post-Yugoslav conflict from the “bottom-up” perspective (E. Kazaz), seen by an individual, a “weak character” (J. Matanović). In the works analyzed, the “victorious, top-down narrative” gives way to the individual, not collective experience of trauma and living in wartime. In some cases, the main characters are situated in the restricted, confined, claustrophobic spaces, and in other cases, the action takes place in an open space, and is even relocated to the Atlantic Ocean (literary escapism). The individual war experience of the characters is traumatic not only because of expressiveness and inexpressiveness of the suffering (D. LaCapra) with the instrument of language. Therefore, in writing about war some authors incline towards an intimistic reflection of their inner state, while others to the poetics of the absurd, grotesque, tragicomedy. The space and setting is not a random construction, but has a certain meaning and purpose. The text also raises the issue of terminology which is so important for many researchers: here the terms “war literature” and “anti-war literature” play the main role.

Kronologija hrvatske dječje književnosti do 1918

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 02/2017

A chronology of Croatian children's literature until 1918. Compiled by Berislav Majhut and Dubravka Težak. Translated by Nada Kujundžić.

Prelazno razdoblje gradišćanskohrvatske pismenosti

Author(s): Nikola Benčić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1(2)/2007

Some historians of literature consider the initial stage of the Croatian literature of Western Hungary, namely the 16th and 17th centuries, to be a “dark age” since during that period no independent literary work could be found in the literature under discussion. This opinion is misleading as it dates the beginning of independent literary development to the early 18th century while there are some direct and numerous indirect indications that, based on the language and literary tradition of Croatia, literary process continues. This continuous development is interrupted only when it is affected by new social phenomena. From this time onwards (conventionally from the printing of a feast-days Gospel in 1735) one can speak about the Croatian literature of the West Hungarian region or, in modern terms, about Gradište literature. Certainly, its basis was created by the literary development of the so-called “dark” age.

Osobna imena u Kinchu oszebuinom szlavnoga orszaga horvatczkoga Petra Berkea

Author(s): Anđela Frančić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1(2)/2007

In the introduction of the paper the author gives a short overview of the life of Petar Berke and of the content and structure of his work Kinch oſzebuini ſzlavnoga Orſzaga Horvatczkoga, the oldest monograph on Marija Bistrica, the oldest parish fête sight. The central part of the paper consists of the list and analysis of personal names mentioned in the work. They are analyzed according to the sex of the named person, word formation and the origin of names. The characteristics are considered and explained in the context of the Croatian anthroponimy of the 17th and 18th centuries.

O povijesti metodike nastave književnosti u Bosni i Hercegovini: kolonijalno-provincijalni status jedne discipline

Author(s): Muhidin Džanko / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 4/2018

The paper deals with historical development of literature teaching methodology in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a special focus on development of literature teaching methodology as a university course at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, where most of the specialists in this field in Bosnia and Herzegovina come from. The paper also presents a wider South-Slavic context in which literature teaching methodology in Bosnia and Herzegovina developed. Most of the time, it had colonial, peripheral and provicial status compared to literature teaching methodology centres in Zagreb and Belgrade. The paper is self-critical, trying to incite this discipline to exit the academic and intellectual exile it has long been in.

Das Apokryph „Unser lieben Frauen Traum“ bei den Kroaten im 18. Jahrhundert

Author(s): Andrea Sapunar Knežević / Language(s): German Issue: 1-4/2000

In a wider context, the filological analysis of valuable literary records shows that the apocryphal texts of the Croats from Burgenland are based on German examples and their roots go all the way back to the Middle Ages.

Smisao i značaj suvremenih medija u prikupljanju i proučavanju hrvatske usmenoknjiževne baštine

Author(s): Vanda Babić,Denis Vekić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2013

In the study of Croatian oral literary heritage, great importance present the records that have remained preserved as notes on documents, books, songs and poems as part of literary works. Records shows that oral literary text is the subject of research and study of oral heritage. However, the records themselves are not sufficient for studying oral literary text and its context. The text is accompanied by a recorded voice that faithfully represents the diction, rhythm, tone and color of the narrator voice. Videos shows the gestures, context and emotion of the narrator. Without the role of the modern media, oral literary records would be insufficient for studying fundamental aspects of communicativeness that can be interpreted as a context. The media of public communication greatly affects the expansion of the basic ideas of the oral transmission of text which is - storytelling.

O NAZIVIMA JEZIKA U KNJIŽEVNIM DJELIMA XVIII VIJEKA

Author(s): Vedad Mulavdić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2017

The paper discusses the different names of the language in the literature of the 18th century. The sources of research were consisted of the works of three writers: Simeon Piščević, Mula-Mustafa Bašeskija i fra Filip Lastrić. All texts, written in foreign language (Russian, Turkish, Latin), include valuable data about the names of native language. Writers write in a foreign language, but they think in their native language named differently as Serbian, Slovenian, Native, Illyrian, Bosnian. It means that the awareness of the native language and its particularities has been present in this period of our language development. Also, it is obvious the difference between spoken language of that period (which is always native) and the official language of literature, which is foreign. Furthermore, as the autors belong to the different traditions of literature, their works are convenient for historical and theoretical analysis of the literature, which results in, aside of historical-linguistics approach, an integral insight in the tradition of the language in literature of the 18th century.

Putovanje kao alegorija u prozi o Drugome svjetskom ratu

Author(s): Maciej Czerwiński / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2017

The paper considers prose written between 1945 and 1970 as revealing changes in attitudes towards the communist idea in Croatia, and Yugoslavia, especially as regards the construct of the protagonist, i.e. the partisans. In the immediate post- WWII period, partisan activities are conceptualized as a journey through time towards a well-defined goal. In the 1950s, their journey is transformed into roaming that is eventually resolved, and from the 1960s, into roaming with no destination point, i.e. no goal. The first journey exemplifies the earliest communist vision of the bright future to which the partisans and society aspired. The second exemplifies the moment of hesitation that emerges during the journey, but is resolved. The third exemplifies hesitation that is presented as contamination of ideals and a catastrophe. The first journey is associated with the communist orthodoxy (tribal collectivism), the second with its critical re-evaluations (critical collectivism), and the third with decadent tendencies (individualism).

СЕМАНТИКА ИГРЕ У РОМАНУ ПРОЉЕЋА ИВАНА ГАЛЕБА. ИГРЕ ПРОЉЕЋА И СМРТИ ВЛАДАНА ДЕСНИЦЕ

Author(s): Snežana Šarančić Čutura / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2013

The semantics of the play in the novel Ivan Galeb’s Spring. The Play of Spring and Death by V. Desnica is considered from the aspect of the narrator’s creation of the “image of the world”: identity, perception of art, life, soul... The archetypal semantic fullness of the three plays the narrator remembers from his childhood are the vital elements in the interpretation of Desnica’s novel.

ПРEДСТAВA O ГРAДУ KAO ELEMEHT ИДEОЛОШКE OCHOBE ЕПСКЕ ПОEЗИЈE

Author(s): Mirjana Detelić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-3/2005

Resulting from the multiannual engagement in the Epic Towns project of the SASA Institute for Balkan Studies, the author is finally able to present and discuss the data about the number, categorization, and distribution of townscapes in decasyllabic oral epic poetry from Serbo-Croat speaking area. That means in the epic ballads collected in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina during the last half of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth.