Original scientific paper
THE HIGH AND THE LOW IN ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERATURE1
Maja Bošković-Stulli
Abstract
In the first part of the article, the author presents the literary-
-historical and cultural aspects of the concepts of the high and the
low, starting from the Slavic mythology, poetic visions of space
and theories of high and low literary styles, to two cultures (high and
low) in the medieval and early modern period. The second part of the
article discusses the relationships between the high and the low in
Croatian poems written "in the folk style", especially those from
the Collection of Nikša Ranjina dating from 1507.
(The article has been prepared for publication in Croatian in the
second enlarged edition of the author's book O usmenoj tradiciji i
životu 'On oral tradition and life', Zagreb 2002).
Keywords
high and low; high culture; low culture; folk poetry; poems "in the folk style"; Croatian petrarchan lyrics
Hrčak ID:
33229
URI
Publication date:
10.6.2002.
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