Naslov
Working Through Catastrophe: Ragusan Literary Testimony on the Great Earthquake of 1667

Autori
Brković, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Portals: Spaces of Encounter, Entanglement and Exchange

Mjesto i datum
Split, Hrvatska, 25.09.2017. - 26.09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Potres u Dubrovniku 1667 ; hrvatska književnost 17. stoljeća
(the 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake ; Croatian literature of the 17th century)

Sažetak
The Great Earthquake of 1667 was one of the most traumatic events in the history of the small early modern Adriatic Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). The disaster was thematised in various historical genres, as well as in literary texts which were written, among others, by Ragusans who had witnessed the tragedy. Four shorter occasional poems appeared promptly, already in the same year, while two texts with a more complex structure – Nikolica Bunić’s epyllion Feniče (Phoenix) and Jaketa Palmotić’s historical poem Dubrovnik ponovljen (Dubrovnik Renewed) – were written at the time when the brunt of crisis had passed. By approaching these texts as important media for working through a collective trauma, this paper indicates textual signals of various stages of coming to terms with it. In addition, it examines the representation of emotions connected with this process, whereby demonstrating that the Ragusan literary opus on the Great Earthquake of 1667 follows the emotional models, i.e. the social and cultural scripts typical for representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. In that sense, new light is shed on the portrayal of emotions both in contrast with their distinctive features and with respect to their social and cultural functions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost

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