An Overview of the History of Serbian Literature (the History of Literature in The Function of the Development of Literary Criticism)

The paper starts from the crucial fact that the function of literary criticism in Serbian culture was initially performed by the history of literature as the foundational, old¬est, and main branch of literary science. An overview of the history of Serbian literature shows that it, valued at the time of its emergence, throughout its duration, and even today, represents the culmination or final products of critical thought synthesis. Therefore, it can be rightly asserted that both the significant national cultural project and the major synthesis of the history of Serbian criticism – The History of Serbian Literary Criticism by Predrag Pala¬vestra – emanate from the history of Serbian literature. In its theoretical, methodological, and critical principles, the paper represents a cross-section of ten histories of Serbian literature.