Naslov
Tears and Memories of the Nation: Poetics of Memory and Aesthetics of Mourning in the First Croatian National Epos

Autori
Blažević, Zrinka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Cultures and Politics of Remembrance: Southeast European and Balkan Perspectives

Urednik/ci
Trajanovski, Naum ; Todorov ; Petar ; Volchevska, Biljana ; Risteski, Ljupsho S.

Izdavač
Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) ; Institut za etnologiju i folklOris tiku (IEF)

Grad
Skopje

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
64-70

ISBN
978-608-4956-04-4

Ključne riječi
Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo, Pavao Ritter Vitezović, national epos, culture of memory

Sažetak
Starting from the presumption that the cultivation of emotionally imbued shared memories is an essential part of national identity, this paper aims at scrutinizing poetic strategies and aesthetic dimensions of the culture of memory in the first Croatian national epos Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo /Two Centuries of Croatia Mournful. This is a Latin verse chronicle written by Croatian poet and polymath Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652–1713) and published in Zagreb in 1703. The most prominent feature of Vitezović’s poetic discourse is prosopopoeia by which the subject of enunciation, the personified homeland of Croatia, is metaphorically identified with a woman-mother who presents a kind of “ego history of mourning” during the two centuries of Ottoman conquests. Due to its inherent ability to employ various forms of aesthetic mediation, the first national epos thus creates not only imaginative and affective conditions for its receptivity but also gains the “prosthetic quality” as a crucial factor of the cultural dynamics of remembrance.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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