The reception of Andrija Kačić Miošić in Zadar periodicals published in croatia during the 19th century

Abstract

There is an evident interest in the life and work of the writer and educator friar Andrija Kačić Miošić within the periodicals published in Croatian that came out during the 19th century in Zadar. The reason for this is that the model of Kačić’s enlightening practical-educational literature proffered itself as the ideal means for achieving the Croatian national revival’s goals in Dalmatia. The nineteenth century Zadar periodicals published in Croatian – beginning with Zora dalmatinska through Narodni list to Iskra – were emphatically revivalist and aimed at educating the folk. The reception of Andrija Kačić Miošić in these periodicals as well as in some other Zadar newspapers (in Katolička Dalmacija  and Hrvatska or, for example, in the official paper Smotra dalmatinska) can be seen on a number of levels: 1. in the programmatic conception and in the orientation of the entire  paper towards Kačić and the people – as is evident in Zora dalmatinska while Kuzmanić was its editor and even more emphatically in Iskra edited by Nikola Šimić especially during  its first run; the same is true for Sundečić’s Zvijezda and for Narodni koledar issued by the Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society – or at least for one of its parts, most  frequently its feuilleton (Narodni list, Smotra dalmatinska and others); 2. in the dominant literary model of these periodicals (the model of Kačić’s realistic-rationalistic enlightenment literature is literally paradigmatic); 3. in the numerous literary-historical and occasional articles, discussions and studies devoted to the life and work of Kačić Miošić and in critical reviews of his writings (it is especially worthwhile to underline the works by Stjepan Ivičević  in Zora dalmatinska, by Nikola Šimić in Iskra and by Petar Kasandrić in Iskra and Smotra dalmatinska); 4. in reviews of the editions of Kačić’s work or individual publications devoted to him (for example in Iskra Ribol’s work Vjenčić Milovanu, 1885); 5. in poems  written on the occasion of Kačić’s different anniversaries or when monuments were erected (in Narodni list, in Iskra); 6. in the publication of Kačić’s poems (Narodni list, Hrvatska).