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The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Croatia: An Outline

The aim of my presentation is to give a diachronical overview of the reception of Oscar Wilde in Croatia, to point out different aspects of its manifestation and some examples of creative influence exerted by his works and his poetics on Croatian canonic writers. My work draws on more than hundred bibliographic units of which mostly theatrical reviews, which testify to the intensity of the reception of Oscar Wilde in Croatia, in particular in the first half of the 19th century and an enduring, though modified, presence of his works in Croatian cultural context. Given the fact that the turn-of – the century Croatian cultural centres were increasingly engaged in international European theatre culture, and Croatian intelligentsia was highly responsive to the flux of ideas and current literary trends, the aim of my work is also to explore the dynamics of cultural exchange with other central European cultures at that time and, in particular, examine the dominant influence in the reception of Wilde extended from Paris, Viennese and Berlin literary and theatrical circles. It also aims at investigating various paradigms of the reception of Oscar Wilde in Croatia contextualizing them within a larger sociohistorical, political and cultural framework and the impact Wilde's works and his poetics had on Croatian theatrical and literary circles, their reverberation in the writing of some eminent Croatian authors featuring traces of possible influence, some of them already acknowledged.

Oscar Wilde; literary and cultural reception; Croatia

The extended paper is published as a chapter in the book: Grubica, Irena. “The ‘Byron of Kipling’s England: Oscar Wilde in Croatia”, poglavlje u knjizi, izvorni znanstveni rad, The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. (ur. Stefano Evangelista, gl. urednik edicije The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study, University of London). London: Continuum, 2010., str. 270-284. [uvršten u IASIL bibliografiju, Irish University Review, 2011]. ISBN: 978-1-8470-6005-1 (ukupan br. stranica u knjizi: 381) Sažetak pozvanog izlaganja na skupu u Oxfordu objavljen je online: http://www.oscholars.com/Oxford08/Abstracts/Abstracts.htm (Last visited 20 January 2013)