Aspects of the image of “enemy” in Dimitrije Demetar's Grobničko polje
Aspects of the image of “enemy” in Dimitrije Demetar's Grobničko polje

Summary/Abstract: Romanticism in Croatian literature principally coincided with the Renaissance period, identified among literary historians as Illyrianism. While substantially a political movement, as a complex of stylistic features, it displays all characteristics of European Romanticism, along with specific attributes of its own. Above all, Croatian Romantic literature served to consolidate modern national feeling but also had its own poetics and preferred reading material. Croatian Romantic literature was closest to the German cultural sphere before being dominated for a long time by Slavonic influences and later, to a lesser degree, by Romance and English literature. Dimitrije Demetar was a Greek Croatian poet, dramatist, short story writer, and literary critic. One of his most leading works is his poem Grobnik Field, written in 1842 for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grobnik Field, where, according to legend, the Croats defeated the invading Tatars. In this paper, we will examine the delineation of the image of the enemy as an author's structural narrative motif for awakening the Croatian nation.

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