Judita in the Oldest High School Readers

U članku se daje osvrt na školsku recepciju Judite na temelju čitanaka za više gimnazije do 1901. godine. Pritom se promatraju Ilirska čitanka (1856), Hrvatska čitanka za gornje gimnazije i nalike jim škole Franje Petračića (1880), kao i novo izdanje Petračićeve čitanke koje je priredio Ferdo Ž. Miler (1895). Autorica se osvrće i na nekoliko stručnih članaka pedagoške naravi koji se izravno ili neizravno tiču Judite i njezine prisutnosti u gimnazijskoj nastavi.The paper briefly throws light on the fate of Judita in Croatian senior high school readers up to the year 1901, in other words, during the time when the reception of Marulić’s verse in Croatian was negligible and Marulić regularly appeared only in the form of excerpts in readers. In the first, the Illyrian Reader of 1856, Judita was represented by a selection, of the first 120 lines, which was the first publication of any kind after the long-previous fifth edition of the work. Because Marulić at the time the Illyrian Reader was being prepared was an almost unknown writer, from the current perspective nevertheless the publication of this fragment was an important event, even if it elicited no very great response. Nor were there any important receptive ripples after the publication of the reader of Franjo Petračić (1880) or the revised edition of the same text published by Ferdo Ž. Miler (1895). This lowly status in the readers, however, was at odds with Miler’s youthful discussion of 1877 in which he called for a more careful reading of Judita, suggesting strategies for the reading of the old Chakavian text. But since the pedagogy and philology of the time were much influenced by the approach of Vuk Karadžić, which sought from literature an emanation of the »national spirit« and pure, simple diction, Marulić’s Croatian verses remained a mere curiosity better left to the school readers