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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…

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,…

„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…

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…

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…

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…

Hermaphrodite Woman. The Rhetoric of Sexuality and Femininity in the Short Stories of A.G. Matoš [the Example of the Short Story Crossroads Flower]

The literary work of A.G. Matoš is characterized by a strong interest in femininity and sexuality. The analyses of female's figures and sexuality in the author's oeuvre have strived to imbue these concepts with stable m…

The Krugovi Generation about Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš, central figure of Croatian Modernism became an icon and a legend yet in life, which, after the artistʼs death, only strengthened and his influence on the further shape of Croatian literature is diffi…

Royalists and Dwarfs Take to the Streets. Culture of Resistance in the Activities of Movements of Czech Children and Orange Alternative

This article is an attempt to compare two contestation models, that occurred in the activities of new social movements formed in the 80s of the twentieth century in Czechoslovakia and Poland (Czech Children and Orange A…

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Václav Havel: Non-political Politician

The article presents the political and intellectual silhouette of Václav Havel (1936-2011) - the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first one of the Czech Republic. Havel, the next to the Pole Lech Wałęsa, is the…

Parenthetical Remarks on Literary Contestations by Dubravka Ugrešić

In the article, the literary texts of the Croatian authoress are considered, since they present a critical comportment that is to remain in opposition to the crisis of the contemporary culture. The article makes an atte…

Contestation à rebours. On Writing and Non-Writing of Karel Michal

The problem of transfer from the official to the unofficial culture is one of the most significant phenomena in the post-war Czech literature history. Resistance against the limitations on creative autonomy set by the g…

A Dissident Bogdan Radica

In the article a certain prominent Croatian emigrant, but very little known in Croatia, is taken into consideration. Bogdan Radica (1904-1993) was a political dissident in two different circumstances. Between 1941-1945,…