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Rezo, Vladimira (2026). “Prostor u romanu Jaša Dalmatin potkralj Gudžerata” [Space in the Novel Jaša Dalmatin potkralj Gudžerata]. Proceedings of the scholarly conference Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić in the New Millennium, Slavonski Brod, 18–20 April 2024.
The paper is due to go to press shortly.
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Accepted
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Rezo, Vladimira (2027). “A Little Wartime Diary: Political Interference in the Croatian School Reading List”. Surrounded by Conflicts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
The chapter is being edited, with a final decision from the reviewers expected in autumn 2026. Publication is planned for 2027.
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Submitted
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Professor Davor Piskač, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
European Journal for Biblio/Poetry Therapy
2025-12-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.65018/EJBPT-vol1iss3pp1-11
Abstract
Literary bibliotherapy (or reflective bibliotherapy or “just” bibliotherapy) is presented as a potentially different approach to reading literary texts. It builds extensively on the knowledge and practices developed within other bibliotherapeutic traditions worldwide. While it shares many features with established approaches from countries such as Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom, it distinguishes itself through its specific theoretical grounding and methodological structure. Therefore, it may be more accurate to describe it as different rather than innovative, since it conceptually stands on the shoulders of its predecessors.
The terminology itself, whether one prefers the term “just” bibliotherapy, literary bibliotherapy or reflective bibliotherapy, remains open to discussion, inviting further reflection on how best to define this emerging bibliotherapeutic model.
The scientific approach of literary bibliotherapy is based on understanding and using emotions as a form of symbolical generalized communication media. The method focuses on the reflective reading of emotional conceptual metaphors (conemotional metaphors) in the text. In this way, readers can connect the events presented in the literary work with emotions they personally experience. At the same time, literary bibliotherapy uses the technique of symbolic modeling. In the process of analyzing conceptual metaphors within the text, the so-called technique of clean language is used. Symbolic modeling connects conceptual metaphors with the reader's emotions, which helps to determine the reader's metaphorical horizon. It functions as the reader's core belief regarding the presented and analyzed text. All of that is implemented in the therapeutic process through the MED cycle — a structured approach specifically developed for engaging with literature and grounded in cognitive psychotherapy.
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Published
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Professor Davor Piskač, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A peer-reviewed book prepared for printing as part of the project.
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Accepted
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Professor Dubravka Zima, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in Annales, Series Historia Et Sociologia, Koper, Slovenia
Abstract
A paper by Professor Dubravka Zima, PhD.
Publication status
Accepted
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Professor Dubravka Zima, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Submitted and accepted for peer review by Central European Cultures, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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A paper by Professor Dubravka Zima, PhD.
Publication status
Under review
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Associate Professor Domagoj Brozović, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Chapter in preparation for the Routledge Handbook of Global Comics, edited by Harriet E. H. Earle, Amy Matthewson and Manuela di Franco: From Proto-Comics to the Global Market: A Concise History of Croatian Comics.
Abstract
The chapter presents a concise history of Croatian comics, from early forms of visual storytelling to their place in today’s global market.
Publication status
In preparation
