CROATIAN-SLOVENIAN LITERARY RELATIONS IN THE PERIOD OF MODERNA

This paper examines position of Croatian and Slovenian literature in context of Westerneuropean literary and political canon, with a short overview of historical literary and cultural relations between Croatia and Slovenia. Identities of two cultures, considering their social and political modalities, are compared. Characteristics of cultural identity in period of literary movement moderna" in Croatia and Slovenia are indicated. Relations of Croatian and Slovenian literature and culture towards their (dominant) neighbour cultures are observed. Relations between Croatian and Slovenian moderna are explored based on examples from the poetry of Croatian poet Dragutin Domjanic and Slovenian poet Dragotin Kette.