Osijek, Croatia

Literature and Cultural Identity

Književnost i kulturni identitet

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⇑Literature and Cultural Identity at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

Language: Croatian Studies in Croatian
Subject area: languages
University website: www.unios.hr
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: doktor/doktorica znanosti u području humanističkih znanosti (dr. sc. human.)
Duration: 3 years / 180 ECTS

⇑Definitions and quotes

Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
Literature
The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.
William King, letter (Jan. 7, 1719). Same phrase occurs in the Spectator. Commonwealth of letters is used by Addison, Spectator, No. 529. Nov. 6, 1712.
Identity
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also become more positive...
Malcolm X, in The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-esteem, p. 20.
Identity
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.
Wynton Marsalis, in Wynton Marsalis gives spirited take on jazz with ‘Abyssinian Mass’
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