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On the Molise Slavic Literary Standard

This article aims to present and describe the situation of the literary language of the Molise Slavs. In the last decades, various scholars have expressed their views on this issue with some of them claiming that Molise…

A Phenomenon of Modern Slavic Microphilology in Slavic Studies

The article addresses a phenomenon of Slavic microphilology, outlines the structure and classification of modern Slavic literary microlanguages, introduces their different characteristic, and suggests arguments in favou…

Tradition, Folklore, Modernity. Upper Sorbian and Kashubian Culture Through the Eyes of Its Young Representatives

The article is based on a participatory observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2012 and 2013 with young (aged 16-25) Upper Sorbs and Kashubs. They were asked about their perception of the Upper Sorbian/…

Róža Domašcyna's Poetical Project between Folklore and Modernity

Poetical project by Sorbian poet Róža Domašcyna fits into the category of „minor literature", coined by F. Guattari and G. Deleuze in 1975. Despite its inevitably political, ecological and ideological local connotations…

On Ethnolinguistic Situation in the Community of Karashevo [Romania]

Krashovani are the Catholic Slavic language minority settled in the region of Romanian Banat. They live in seven villages: Karashevo, Clocotici, Lupac, Nermet, Vodnic, Rafnic and Iabalcea, however, the last one represen…

Modern Literary Prekmurian Language: the Case of Porabje

The aim of the paper is to present the modern Prekmurian language that is nowadays used in Porabje. Porabje, located in Hungary, is a part of the bigger historical region named Prekmurje. While the Prekmurje was divided…

„Command of Fathers". A Discourse of Sorrow and Enthusiasm in the Struggle of Aromanians for Their Language and Ethnicity in Multicultural Balkan Societies

Since 1962, when Zbigniew Gołąb has published his fundamental study on Aromanian language in Macedonia, in Polish literature, beyond his study, there was a little interest in Aromanians as an ethnic group and in their l…

Priamel, Proverb as a Dialogue and Welleryzm in Kashubian Paremiography

The article presents special types of proverbs in Kashubian paremiography: priamel, proverb as a dialogue, welleryzm. These outstanding examples of the proverbial formulas are rarely recorded, usually known locally. The…

Ethnicity and Nationality of the Indigenous Population of Upper Silesia after 1989

In the article, the author describes an evaluation regarding the identity of the indigenous population of Upper Silesia against the specific of this region background. First of all, he focuses on the evaluation concerni…

Folk Etymologies in the Role of Creator of Kashubian Ethnic Identity - Rozmòwa Pòlôcha z Kaszëbąby Florian Ceynowa

The article presents folk etymologies in the work of Florian Ceynowa (1817-1881), who is the creator of the written version of the Kashubian language, entitled Rozmòwa Pòlôcha z Kaszëbą (1850). Rozmòwa...is maintained i…

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…

Development of Russophile and Narodovetsky Movements in Transcarpathia

The article researches a development of the national-cultural movements. The attention is paid to the development of Russophiles and its organizational center „Organization of Saint Vasyl the Great". Author describes th…

Stylization - Ideas for the Reactivation of the Silesian Language

In the article, the status of the Silesian ethnolanguage is shortly discussed. The opinions of two groups writing about this topic are presented: those writing from the perspective of the detailed linguistics (historica…

The Banat Bulgarians - a Phenomenon of Cultural Continuity

Nowadays, the so-called Banat Bulgarians are a numerous group of the descendants of Bulgarian Catholics, which were forced to emigrate to Wallachia in the end of the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century…

Bunjevci from Bačka - Language and Identity

Bunjevci from the region of Bačka are a deeply divided community: some of them believe they are a separate ethnic group with a distinct language, while others claim they are a subgroup of Croats and speak a Croatian dia…

Resian: Genealogical and Sociolinguistic Definition

The article presents a genealogical and sociolinguistic classification of Slavic idioms, drawing on the example of Resian. Resian is an autochthonous idiom, spoken in the Resia Valley (Ital. Val Resia), which belongs to…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…