Milivoj Solar (born 8 April 1936) is a Croatian literary theorist and literary historian. Solar was born in

Koprivnica Koprivnica () is a city in Northern Croatia, located 70 kilometers northeast of Zagreb. It is the capital and the largest city of the Koprivnica-Križevci county. In 2011, the city's administrative area of 90.94 km2 had a total popu ...

. At the University of Zagreb

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he earned a degree in philosophy and Yugoslav studies in 1959. At the same faculty he received his PhD in 1964 with a thesis on

Fran Galović Fran Galović (20 July 1887 – 26 October 1914) was a Croatian writer who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Biography Born in Peteranec near Koprivnica, he studied slavistics and philology in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (po ...

. Since 1963 he worked as an assistant, then as a docent and as an associate, and finally since 1976 as a full tenured professor of literature theory and methodology of the study of literature at the Department for Comparative Literature. In the period of 1987-1990 he also served as SR Croatia's minister of education and culture.

Work

Solar's scholarly work is primarily concerned with

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...

, especially the issues of

poetics Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" an ...

and the relationship between literary theory and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

. He also published works on the methodology of literary studies, literature analysis and universal elements of cultural history such as

myth Myth is a folklore genre consisting of Narrative, narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or Origin myth, origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not Objectivity (philosophy), ...

s. He published the following books: * ''Pitanja poetike'' (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1971) * ''Ideja i priča'' (Liber, Zagreb, 1974; 2nd enlarged ed. Znanje, Zagreb, 1980) * ''Književna kritika i filozofija književnosti'' (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1976) * ''Teorija književnosti'' (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1976; 20th ed. 2005) * ''Uvod u filozofiju književnosti'' (Studentski centar Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 1978) * ''Smrt Sancha Panze'' (Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, Zagreb, 1981) * ''Suvremena svjetska književnost'' (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1982; 1990, 3rd revised and enlarged ed. 1997) * ''Mit o avangardi i mit o dekadenciji'' (Nolit, Beograd, 1985) * ''Eseji o fragmentima'' (Prosveta, Beograd, 1985) * ''Filozofija književnosti'' (Liber, Zagreb, 1985) * ''Roman i mit'' (August Cesarec, Zagreb, 1988) * ''Teorija proze'' (Liber, Zagreb, 1989) * ''Laka i teška književnost'' (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1995; 2nd ed. 2005) * ''Vježbe tumačenja'' (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1997; 2nd ed. 2005) * ''Edipova braća i sinovi'' (Naprijed, Zagreb, 1998) * ''Granice znanosti o književnosti'' (Naklada Pavičić, Zagreb, 2000) * ''Povijest svjetske književnosti'' (Golden marketing, Zagreb, 2003) * ''Predavanja o lošem ukusu'', (Politička kultura, Zagreb, 2004) * ''Ideja i priča'' (Collected works, 1st book, Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga, Zagreb, 2004) * ''Uvod u filozofiju književnosti'' (Collected works, 2nd book, Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga, Zagreb, 2004) * ''Retorika postmoderne'' (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2005) * ''Rječnik književnoga nazivlja'' (Golden marketing-Tehnička knjiga, Zagreb, 2006) * ''Književni leksikon'' (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2007) He's a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2008, member of the Croatian Writers' Association and the Croatian Philosophic Society. He's a winner of the Zagreb City Award in 1972, Award "Božidar Adžija" in 1975, Vladimir Nazor Award in 1977 and HAZU award in 2004 for the book ''Povijest svjetske književnosti'' ('History of world literature').

References

Solar's biography
at the

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's website

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Solar, Milivoj 1936 births Living people People from Koprivnica Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Vladimir Nazor Award winners Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb