Literary Creation on The Island of Korčula In The 19th Century

Književni proces na Korčuli tijekom 19. stoljeća u duhu je alijenirane i otuđene Dalmacije koja se cijelo stoljeće borila i izborila za svoj hrvatski jezik i književnost na hrvatskome jeziku. Dug talijanskoj kulturi i književnosti u Korčuli uočavamo u prigodnoj i udvorničkoj poeziji kasnoga osamnaestog i početka devetnaestoga stoljeća, koja je mahom u duhu talijanske prigodničarske poezije, u kojoj dominira sonet. Od značajnijih imena koji u to vrijeme objavljuju, nažalost, osim Nikole Španića, otuđenoga i rebelnog literata, važnijih imena nema. Pozne godine 19. stoljeća, odnosno kretanje spram predromantizma, romantizma i predrealizma, vidljive su u skromnim književnim i estetskim vrednotama književnih proznih uradaka Stjepana Kastrapelija i Petra Franasovića. Želimo li odgovoriti na pitanje je li Korčula odgovorila izazovima vremena, pogotovo na pitanje književne recepcije, možemo odgovoriti potvrdno, međutim, s vrlo skromnim književnim prinosom, koji je više književnopovijesnog, a znatno manje estetskoga značaja.The literary process on Korčula during the 19th century reflects the spirit of the alienated and estranged Dalmatia that struggled for its Croatian language and literature in the Croatian languageduring that whole century, in which it finally succeeded. We see the debt to Italian culture and literature in Korčula in the occasional and laudatory poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which is mainly in the spirit of the Italian occasional poetry, in which the form of thesonnetdominates. Among the important names who published their works at that time, there are no, unfortunately, more important literary names. The only exception is Nikola Španić, an alienated and rebelling literate. In the later years of the 19th century, the most important names are those of Stjepan Kastrapeli and Petar Franasović. Although the value of their prose texts is rather modest, we can detect in them the movements towards pre-romanticism, romanticism and pre-realism. If we want to answer the question whether Korĉula responded to the challenges of time, especially in terms of literary reception, we can answer affirmatively, but with very modest literary yields, which is more of a literary-historical and much less aesthetic importance