HOMELAND TRENDS OF THE MAŽURANIĆ

Abstract

The native land as a reality helps a man to identify himself in the best possible way. The Mažuranićs of Novi Vinodolski, who had been efficiently affirmed in the Croatian literature and culture, intorduced some characteristics of mentality of the region from which they came from, into their literary works, so that their anticipations present an important key for understanding the spiritus movens for their messages and other points by which their special qualities have been defined, but which have not so far been adequately illustrated in the history of the Croatian literature. This contribution presents an effort to overcome the vacuum in the lives and works of the Mažuranićs and their native homeland of Novi Vinodolski.