MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
By Radmila Marinkovic
Before they accepted Christianity the Serbs had a unified culture with a long tradition whose strength was based on its equality and similarity with the culture of numerous other Slavic tribes.

STANDARD LANGUAGE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CULTURE AND THE PRODUCT OF NATIONAL HISTORY
By Pavle Ivic
A closer examination of the history of the Serbian literary language indicates that all the pivotal changes in the orientation of Serbian culture are reflected not only in its vocabulary and syntax, but also in its morphology and phonology. Those changes denoted dimensions such as clerical or secular orientation, eastern or western orientation (including further subcategories, such as Byzantine versus Russian, German versus French versus Anglo-American), or aristocratic (elitist) versus populist.

LITERATURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
By Jovan Deretic
After the Great Migration in 1690, the centre of the literary and cultural life of the Serbian people moved from the South to the North - from the Turkish territories to the regions governed by Habsburg monarchy.

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
By Novica Petkovic
In the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Serbian literature took on all the basic characteristics of a modern national literature.