Young Bosnia: Literary Action 1908-1914
Young Bosnia: Literary Action 1908-1914

Summary/Abstract: Literary work and criticism was a significant aspect of the public activity of the shortlived Young Bosnia movement, but an aspect which has been unjustly neglected in historiography or overshadowed by the political aspect marked by the struggle for national liberation. Much as the movement was unstructured, contradictionridden and often uncertain whether to give precedence to the ethical or the aesthetic dimension of literature, its openness to the pacesetting European cultures gave an impetus to laying the literary and intellectual groundwork for the modernization of not only the local literary scene in BosniaHerzegovina but also of the shared cultural space in interwar Yugoslavia.

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