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
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Cultures and Politics of Remembrance: Southeast European and Balkan Perspectives / Trajanovski, Naum ; Todorov ; Petar ; Volchevska, Biljana ; Risteski, Ljupsho S. - Skopje : Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) ; Institut za etnologiju i folklOris tiku (IEF), 2021, 64-70

ISBN
978-608-4956-04-4

Skup
Sixth International Philosophical Dialogue "East- West": Philosophy of Memory

Mjesto i datum
Skopje, Sjeverna Makedonija, 06.10.2021. - 08.10.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

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

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