Dubrovačko-dalmatinska renesansna književnost u konceptualizacijama južnoslavenske kulturne sinteze: od ilirizma do raspada Jugoslavije
| Title in English | Dubrovnik and Dalmatia Renaissance Literature in the Conceptualisations of South Slavic Cultural Synthesis: From the Illyrian Movement to the Breakup of Yugoslavia |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
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| Description | Lying at the heart of the Illyrian Movement (1832–1848) and of some later forms of South Slav ideology was the idea that the South Slavs should, because of their linguistic closeness and of a Herderian common national spirit (der Volksgeist) form a unique South Slav culture. Some of the ideologues and champions of the South Slav idea included in their thinking about this kind of cultural synthesis the older traditions of the South Slavs, such as their oral poetry or the intellectual heritage of Baroque Slavism. The objective of this paper is to show what kind of role was played in these conceptualisations by Dubrovnik and Dalmatian Renaissance writing, one of the most significant components of the South Slav cultural heritage. Particular attention will be devoted to the status and importance ascribed it by literary historians like Vatroslav Jagić, Pavle Popović and Antun Barac in their understanding of Yugoslav or Serbo-Croat literature. What parts and features of the Dubrovnik and Dalmatian literary Renaissance did they and many other adherents of South Slavism pick out, focus on and attach most value to? How did they fit them into their vision of Yugoslav cultural unity and efforts at the definition of a Yugoslav literature? Did they perceive this literary tradition as primarily Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croat or Yugoslav and what were the dissensions that stemmed from this kind of attribution? These are some of the questions that this paper will attempt to answer pursuant to an analysis of the relevant programmatic documents and essays, literary historical surveys, manuals and encyclopaedia entries and discussions of Yugoslav literature, which will be tracked over a broad temporal arc from the Illyrian Movement to the breakup of the SFRY. |