Naslov
A Cultural Framework for Romantic Love: Early Modern Croatian Examples

Autori
Sardelić, Mirko

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Skup
Love for Love's Sake: Code of Romantic Love in South Slavic Literatures

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 05.07.2018. - 06.07.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
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Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Romantic Love, Croatian Love Poetry, History of Emotions

Sažetak
In an attempt to clarify the notion of romantic love, V. Karandashev proposes (among others) that it is 'actually a set of mental associations, which people develop in their minds around sex and a prospective sexual partner.' (Karandashev 2017, 278) As such, this set of associations is both individually and, arguably even more, culturally determined. The culture of a poet-lover provides a spatiotemporal framework for love which then the poet respects, enriches, sometimes even contests. European Middle Ages, for example, developed the dualistic opposition: selfish desire vs selfless 'true love' ; the latter being celebrated and idealized for centuries. This paper discusses some challenges of interpretation of love poetry. In order to soundly analyze the literary works written by an individual of another epoch and culture, scholars need to use a set of complex methodological tools devised by literary and cultural historians, anthropologists, psychologists, philologists, … In this paper, some aspects of cultural history and history of emotions will be proposed, and applied to several examples of 16th- and 17th-century Croatian love poetry. The observed categories will belong to both poetic (e.g. cultural references to Petrarch(ists) or Neoplatonists) and socio-political realm (e.g. the provenance of authors).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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