Volume : 2, Issue : 10, October - 2013

Albanian Romantism as an Expression of Self–conscience and National Identity

Dr. Elvira Lumi

Abstract :

Roman Literature is a literature that belongs to the era of the XIX century, in the beginnings of the XX century which is also connected with the National Renaissance and reflects; cultural resurrection, national issue and deals with the universal themes. Romanticism is a universal literature school which has affected all the European national literatures. Eqerem Çabej admits that romanticism coming from the west Europe, slowly spread even in east and southeast Europe, so everywhere in Balkan. He sees the romantic literature product as conditional from the artistic expression viewpoint. From one side this is because of romantic conditions in which the Albanian writers were in contact and from the other side because of Albanian poetry. He clearly profiles the forms of Albanian romanticism, referring to authors such as : De Rada, Naimi and Fishta. According to Çabej the new literature stream ings in itself a dawn of the literature