Keywords
historical novel
history/story
reality
fiction
How to Cite
Abstract
The paper begins by asserting that the historical novels of Ksaver Šandor Gjalski have received special treatment in Croatian literary historiography, which tends to ascribe to them a more a documentary and historiographic rather than literary value. This paper will analyse the Romantic, realist and modernist features of Gjalski’s historical novels Osvit. Slike iz tridesetih godina (Dawn. Pictures from the [18]30s) (1892) and Za materinsku riječ. Slike iz četrdeset osme godine (For the Maternal Word. Pictures from [18]48) (1906). In the light of theories of histories as stories (narratives), this paper will indicate that their so-called documentary value is
attributable to literary strategies that are used to interpret the past they represent in a specific way, and not to record what is assumed to be the authentic past.
References
Pavličić, P. (1995). Madoni Markantunovoj. In: Rukoljub. Pisma slavnim ženama. Zagreb: Slon, pp. 117–130.
Pulić, N. (1995). Pogovor. In: K. Š. Gjalski: Dolazak Hrvata. Zagreb: Alfa, pp. 160–165.
Radin, A. (1987). Eventualne formalno-semantičke distinkcije. Trivijalna i umetnička književnost. In: Trivijalna književnost. Zbornik tekstova. Ed. S. Slapšak. Beograd: Studentski izdavački centar UK SSO Beograda, Institut za književnost i umetnost, pp. 44–50.
Rapacka, J. (2002). Leksikon hrvatskih tradicija. Trans. D. Blažina. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska.
Savković, M. (1952). Đalski kao istoričar hrvatskog društva. In: Ogledi. Beograd: Prosveta, pp. 273–290.
Sertić, M. (1970). Stilske osobine hrvatskog historijskog romana. In: Hrvatska književnost prema evropskim književnostima. Od narodnog preporoda k našim danima. Eds. A. Flaker, K. Pranjić. Zagreb: Liber, Mladost, pp. 175–255.
Smith, A. D. (1999). Myths and Memories of the Nation. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198295341.001.0001
Stančić, N. (1989). Gajeva “Još Horvatska ni propala iz 1832–33.” Ideologija Ljudevita Gaja u pripremnom razdoblju hrvatskog narodnog preporoda. Zagreb: Globus.
Šicel, M. (2003). Ksaver Šandor Gjalski. In: Pisci i kritičari. Studije ieseji iz hrvatske književnosti. Zagreb: Ljevak, pp. 138–157.
White, H. (1975). Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore–London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Žmegač, V. (1991). Povijesni roman danas, “Republika,” no. 1–2 (5–6), pp. 58–75.
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Suzana Coha
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors
The authors of the articles accepted for publication in the journal Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne are obliged to fill up the contract for providing the journal free licence (along with sub-licence CC) to works. The contract should be also signed by the authors and sent back to the editorial board of the journal.
Under the terms of the contract, the authors of the texts published in the journal “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” provide the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań with a non-exclusive free licence and allow the aforementioned institution to use the sub-licence Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0).
The authors hold the copyright for their texts.
Users
The Internet users are eligible for using the works published in “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” from 2015 under the following conditions:
- recognition of the authorship: the popularized work must contain information about the author, title, source (references to the original work, DOI) and licence.
- no derivative works may be created: the work must be preserved in its original form, the work’s translations or elaborations cannot be distributed without the author’s permission.
The copyright to the texts published before 2015 is reserved.
Other
The University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań holds the right for the entire journal (its segmentation, graphical form, title, cover design, logo, etc.).