Scholarly Article
In Defense of Futile Effort - Joanna Rapacka and the Study of Croatian Literary History
Bogdan, Tomislav
2018-09-21 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Abstract
The article analyses two methods from the scholarly oeuvre of a great Polish Croatian and Slavic studies scholar Joanna Rapacka (1939-2000). These two methods are very interesting and in a particular manner topical, especially in Croatian philology: due to a reconstruction of historical poetics and research of sources, and because of a deconstruction of national myths and national essentialism in literary historiography. These two approaches are closely linked in an attempt to understand an older, pre-modern literary culture in its original, epochal context.
Keywords
Joanna Rapacka, early modern Croatian literature, reconstruction of historical poetics, research of sources, deconstruction of national myths, critique of national essentialism
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne