The Romantic National Epic Poems and National Identity of South Slavs

Abstract

In the 19th-century Europe, numerous ideological, social, political, and artistic processes took place, which interdependently in the "Spring of Nations" created it new image and new identity of its peoples. Among the nations the created and formed therir national identities and cultural and political consciousness through literary-artistic values were also the South Slavs. Their national heroic poems meant an important activity in the development of original national literatures and a solid foundation for their further general development.