Creation of a nation through literature - Croatian literature of the 19th century and touches of Croatian and Ukrainian literature

Ovaj rad nudi prikaz stvaranja nacije kroz književnost u složenim okolnostima 19. stoljeća, kada dolazi do kolanja i stvaranja ideja, nama zamislivih modernih nacija u Europi. Ideje su začete ponajprije u književno-kulturnim intelektualnim krugovima, a da sve ne bi stalo samo na teoriji, ideje se realiziraju s etabliranom političkom idejom i pokretom. U prvom dijelu rada nudi se prikaz Hrvatske i njezinog stvaranja kroz ideje nacije u 19. stoljeću. U Hrvatskoj se ideja nacije manifestirala kroz ideje ilirskog pokreta i hrvatskog narodnog preporoda. Neiscrpnom obuzetošću, težnjama i romantiziranjem ideja, promišljajući o naciji, kojima su zamišljali svoju realnost unutar te idealne nacionalne zajednice, hrvatski preporoditelji su začeli i formirali i našu stvarnost. U drugom dijelu rada nudi se prikaz Ukrajine, stvaranja ukrajinske nacije kroz književnost u sličnim idejnim procesima, koji su zahvatili Europu 19. stoljeća. Taras Ševčenko je također istaknut u radu, kao jedan od idejnih začetnika ukrajinske književne nacije i jedan od najvažnijih preporoditelja ukrajinske nacionalne svijesti. U tome drugome dijelu, nakon opisivanja prilika u 19. stoljeću, u kojem su formirale i hrvatske i ukrajinske ideje nacije, fokus se prebacuje na njihovo međusobno uspoređivanje, to jest sličnosti i razlike u tim sveobuhvatnim procesima nastajanja i bivanja nacionalnom zajednicom.This paper offers a display of the creation of a nation through literature in the complex circumstances of the 19th century, when it comes to the collation and creation of ideas of the modern nations we can imagine in Europe. Ideas were first started in literary and cultural intellectual circles, and so that everything would not stop at theory, ideas are realized with an established political idea and movement. In the first part of the paper, a presentation of Croatia and its creation through the ideas of the nation in the 19th century is offered. In Croatia, the idea of a nation manifested itself through the ideas of the illyrian movement and the croatian national revival. With inexhaustible preoccupation, aspirations and romanticization of ideas, thinking about the nation, with which they imagined their reality within that ideal national community, the Croatian revivalists began and formed our reality as well. In the second part of the paper, a presentation of Ukraine, the creation of the ukrainian nation through literature, in similar ideological processes, which affected Europe in the 19th century, is offered. Taras Shevchenko is also highlighted in the paper, as one of the founders of the ukrainian literary nation and one of the most important revivalists of ukrainian national consciousness. In the second part, after describing the circumstances in the 19th century, in which both croatian and ukrainian ideas of the nation were formed, the focus shifts to their mutual comparison, that is, the similarities and differences in these comprehensive processes of formation and becoming a national community