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„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…

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…