HOW TO UNRAVEL THE TANGLE OF CROATIAN LITERATURE FROM THE 18TH CENTURY

The study points out a necessity for standardization of the concepts of criticism and the criterions of scheduling the history of literature by models of achievements and failures in the research of the 18th century Croatian literature and theatre during the 40 years of collections of papers Dani Hvarskoga kazališta (The Hvar Theatre Days). After comparing the conclusions of René Wellek, that he reached 50 years ago, with the papers published in the collections Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, the author establishes the state of Croatian literary criticism and reveal the elements for resolving the criticism term problem for the poetics in the 18th century