Literary Canon of Croatian Renaissance Culture
Abstract
Croatian Renaissance literary culture did not form its literary in the same way as did the Italians. Therefore, the "canonical order" of sixteenth-century Croatian literary culture is usually associated with the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century synthetic literary history. However, if we have in mind the thesis of Harold Bloom that "canonical writers" are those in whose poetics exhibit "anticanonical elements," or in other words, that all great writers reading their predecessors face the fear of the impact and enable activities of their own imagination, then we can say – albeit very cautiously – that Croatian Renaissance literary culture has at least a few "canonical authors": Mavro Vetranović, Petar Zoranić, Petar Hektorović and Marin DržićReferences
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[12] Z. Kravar, "Emblematika Vetranovićeva Pelegrina" in Filologija, Zagreb, 1980–81, vol. X
Published
2015-09-01
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ŠIMIć, Krešimir.
Literary Canon of Croatian Renaissance Culture.
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 10, p. 35-41, sep. 2015.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/147>. Date accessed: 01 mar. 2026.
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Keywords
Renaissance, canon, Mavro Vetranović, Petar Zoranić, Petar Hektorović, Marin Držić
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