Granice europskoga/slavenskoga istoka i zapada: poljska književnost u kanonu svjetske književnosti iz hrvatske perspektive
The borders of the European/Slavic East and West: Polish literature in the World Literature Canon from the Croatian Point of View

Author(s): Cvijeta Pavlović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: literary canon; literary reception; internal polemic; Croatian-Polish literary
Summary/Abstract: For many centuries Croatian literature was a part of the Western European cultural circle, but it had also been well informed about the events in the East of Europe, which was noted in the literary reception perspective. The geo-political divisions and borders of the 20th century have significantly replaced the cultural and political centres of Croatian literature and many men of letters and intellectuals have assumed a critical and polemic view toward the unfolding state and conditions. In this way Croatian literature had often constituted a border of Eastern and Western Europe and Eastern and Western Slavs. In the context of the Slavic cultural circle Croatian literature had modified its approach and attitude towards other Slavic literatures. After losing the prominence that Polish literature enjoyed in the Croatian literature in the reception inclinations during the 19th century, the 20th century had proven very unstable for the “official” literary attitude. A comparative analysis of the reception of Polish literature as a part of world literature from the Croatian literary perspective is one of the significant indicators of how the construction of the literary canon proves to be an internal critical and polemic position towards the past as well as even to the present “official” cultural and political projections of ideas. The position that the Polish literature occupies in the Croatian literary canon of the 20th century is also an indicative sample of polemics that had been conducted between the Southern Slavs and the question of their identities.

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