Ideje književne povijesti i metodološki pristupi u književnopovijesnim sintezama Branka Vodnika i Mihovila Kombola
The Notions of Literary History and the Methodological Approaches in Branko Vodnik’s and Mihovil Kombol’s Histories of Croatian Literature

Summary/Abstract: After a concise survey of the problems involved in the writing of literary history the paper analyses two histories of Croatian literature: Branko Vodnik’s History of Croatian Literature I (1913) and Mihovil Kombol’s History of Croatian Literature up to the National Revival (1945). The aim of the analysis is to show how the notions governing the historiographic undertaking condition the choice of method and classification models, and affect aesthetic evaluation and canonical status of the literary works discussed. The narrative procedures in two histories are consequently analysed in the attempt to discover the ways in which they re/construct historical reality. By focusing on narrative voice the paper strives to identify the authorial worldviews behind these two projects. As a result, both histories are seen as supporting a strong sense of community and shared identity, which is characteristic for this type of historiography and is common to a number of literary histories written in the West.

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