VELIKA ŠICELOVA KNJIŽEVNOZNANSTVENA SINTEZA POVIJESTI HRVATSKE KNJIŽEVNOSTI
HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN LITERATURE - MIROSLAV ŠICEL´S GREAT LITERARY SCIENTIFIC SYNTHESIS

Summary/Abstract: With all five books of his History of the Croatian literature covering the period of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Expressionism and Synthetic Realism in the time period of the 1750th to 1941st year, the literary historian Miroslav Šicel (1926-2011) achieved the kind of great synthesis that is a goal and task of each literary historian. In the function of this synthesis is the author’s entire rich corpus of one hundred bibliographic units of his earlier views and history of Croatian literature, literary monographs, independent criticism of the books, studies and essays, anthologies and other literary selections. The synthesis is based on the application of appropriate periodization of Croatian literature, emphasizing its literary and scientific, social and national identity, the role of literary programs, manifestos and magazines, historical and political context of certain periods and analytical approach to synthetic processes and the most prominent works of the authors. With harmoniously combining method of external and internal approach, the author has made a significant literary and scientific work that affirms him as one of the foremost contemporary Croatian literary historians.

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