СРПСКА ПРИПОВИЈЕТКА ДОСИТЕЈЕВОГ ДОБА
SERBIAN SHORT STORY OF DOSITEJ’S AGE

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the genesis of the Serbian short story of Dositej’s age (approximately the period from the 1780’s until 1840’s). Dositej’s translations give the Serbian short story a European framework (genres, narrative forms, leading ideas) and it is then gradually nationalized (thematically) and it starts introducing vernacular mixed with literary style (lexis, syntax). The concept of characters and story fit with Enlightenment ideas and forms (idyll, dialogic story-telling, portrait-story, didactic and moral story, etc.). It partly takes topics from the medieval times and then it opens up towards the contemporary civil life and folklore tradition in the intertwinement of Enlightenment and (pre)romantic foci.

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