Original scientific paper

A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THE BALLAD OF THE HIDDEN DEATH: MEANING, STRUCTURE, TECHNIQUES

Krinka Vidaković-Petrov ; Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

The article is focused on a ballad fairly widely distributed in Western
Europe and known under various titles: The Hidden Death, Le Roi Renaud, Sir Oluf, Clerk Colvill, etc. The analysis seeks to determine its structural features, narrative types, semantic oppositions, characters, gender perspective, structural analogues in the South Slavic tradition, its overall meaning and consider certain aspects of ballad
poetics in the context of comparative studies.

Keywords

ballad poetics; ballad structure; ballad techniques; gender; West European and Slavic ballads

Hrčak ID:

172308

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/172308

Publication date:

16.6.2015.

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