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Burgenland Croats and Burgenland Croatian

The paper concerns the formation of the Croatian ethnic community in the Austro-Hungarian region in the 16th century, the author tracks the development of the literary language of the Croats in western Hungary since the…

Autobiographical Fables by Antun Gustav Matoš

The paper aims to show that in his prose oeuvre, Matoš appropriates the typical fairy tale elements, unifies different fairy tale traditions and adapts them pursuant to the symbolist poetics in order to create his own v…

Matošʼs "Prolog" to the Milan Ogrizović's and Andrija Milčinović's Play "Prokletstvo"

On 7th May 1907, after publishing the play Prokletstvo in literary magazine „Savremenik", the censorship approved performing the play in the Croatian national theatre in the theater season 1906/1907 under the condition…

„Intermedial Sensitivity" of Antun Gustav Matoš's Poetry, the Perspective of the Lyrical Subject

The paper aims to show that the lyrical subject of Matošʼs poetry is indeed a media hybrid structure. This subject usually identifies with the signifiers of other artistic media, such as the theater, dance, music, paint…

Variations, Reverbaration and Traces of Matoš's flâneurism in the Selection of Contemporary Croatian Prose

In his book, Čitanje grada (Reading the City), Krešimir Nemec stated that A.G. Matoš has „modeled after Baudelaire, introduced to the Croatian literature a figure of an idle observer, a curious pedestrian or a flâneur,…

Dubravka Oraić Tolić's Thoughts on Antun Gustav Matoš

The purpose of this appendage (addendum) is to study a position of the female subject in the fictional prosem of Antun Gustav Matoš through the reading of Dubravka Oraić Tolić. This research has shown that female subjec…

Matoš and Radić: Two Concepts of Culture

Antun Gustav Matoš and Antun Radić were leading the Croatian intellectuals of their era. Radić, an ethnologist, formulated the concept of culture, in which the most important significance for the national identity was a…

Matoš's Beauty Problematizations. Following Some Research

The article describes the transformations of the traditional category of beauty in the Croatian modernist discourse. Based on the analysis of works of Matoš, we offer a study of modernist concepts of beauty, manifested…

Antun Gustav Matoš and Đakovo

The paper deals with the relationship between Antun Gustav Matoš and the most important people of the town's cultural and political life at the turn of the 19th into 20th century. The relationship between Matoš and the…

The Project of Matoš Monument in Zagreb in 1938 and an Overview of the Valuable Visual Art Works of „Matošiana"

The paper describes the first organized attempt to erect a monument to A.G. Matoš in Zagreb (1938), an erected monument - Matoš on the bench - made by I. Kozarić (1978), as well as other visual art works inspired by Mat…

Journalistic Discours of A.G. Matoš - from Style to Political Imagery

In the newspaper articles and feuilltons, Antun Gustav Matoš uses a variety of procedures analogous to his artistic creation and develops a rich figuration and characteristic irony. The journalistic discourse constructe…

A.G. Matoš's Polemical Style

Antun Gustav Matoš is the father of the Croatian literary polemics. By confronting his con- temporaries, he shaped a unique style of polemicizing which is characterized by straight- forwardness, wit, elegance of speech…

Portraits of Antun Gustav Matoš by Josip Vaništa and Antun Babić

This essay deals with two visual art portraits by the painter Josip Vaništa and the sculptor Antun Babić. The subject is Antun Gustav Matoš, whom each artist depicts according to his own artistic vocabulary and visual l…

Substantial and Disseminated Matoš

This paper deals with the literary works of A.G. Matoš. It attempts to demonstrate that in his works a whole period of the Croatian literature modernism is concentrated. It also explores a question: Why cannot the opus…

Matoš and Whitman: a Comparison of Two Poems

This essay compares Utjeha kose, translated as The Solace of Hair, by Antun Gustav Matoš and Death's Valley by Walt Whitman. We analyze similarities in theme, metaphor and poetic style. We also offer a close analysis of…

Intermedial Correspondence: A.G.M. - Ljudevit Šeštić and Josip Leović

The content of the paper examines the intermediate dialogue of the poetic and artistic text on the paradigm of A.G. Matoš's poetry and the painting created by Ljudevit Šestić and Josip Leović. The main thought derives f…

New Theoretical Approach of Matoš

Spaciousness of the Matoš's Voice

The voice connections observed within the A.G. Matos's poetry establish the poem's space/ the poem's body. The grammar of the speech, grammar of the body and grammar of the poem are connected with the same category - th…

Matošʼs Cvijet sa raskršća [Flower from the Crossroads] - Through Allegory to the Configuration of Self

Flower from the Crossroads (1902) belongs to the group of Matoš's symbolistic novellas, rendered by the symbolically coded title, teleogenetic plot, characters as personified abstractions, motive topography (path, cross…

Antun Gustav Matoš and Croatian Postmodernism

The article Matoš and Croatian Postmodernism shows that it was Boro Pavlović (1921-2001), the anticipator and „the father" of Croatian postmodernism, the author of fifty collections of poems and numerous media creations…

Croatian Short Story and Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš has affirmed the Croatian short story and that is why his short story collections have initiated a major „breakthrough" in terms of this genre's reception. His narrative oeuvre includes the following…

About the [Re]Constructions of Matoš in Histories of Literature

This article deals with the constructions of „Matoš" in Croatian histories of literature. Central for the study is Alum Munslow's thesis that history cannot be „non-narrative". In that respect the relationship between h…

Rijeka and Suroundings in Matoš's Work

The article discusses the relationship between A.G. Matoš and the city of Rijeka, which can be seen in his work „Oko Rijeke". The focus of the analysis is in the ideology by which the discourse subject observes the city…

Life as a Work of Art: Matoš' Authorship. Regarding Dubravka Oraić Tolić' book Čitanja Matoša

Paper deals with a conception of Antun Gustav Matoš authorship, regarding his own definition of his life as a work of art. Performing his authorship in a variety of literary texts, letters and notices, he lived in extre…

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