Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 43 No. 1, 2017.
Original scientific paper
WHO ARE THE INHERITORS OF POPULAR (AND FOLK) LITERATURE? SEVERAL EXAMPLES FROM MODERN PRACTICE
Ivan Bošković
orcid.org/0000-0001-7649-9360
; Faculty of philosophy in Split
Abstract
Even though its dignity within literary science is inversely proportional to the magnitude of its reception, a number of books serve as witness to the productivity of various literary practices that popular literature retains as its most vital genre essence. Regardless of how much scorn literary science holds for it, or how much it decries its value, we are witness to the wealth of titles and libraries that house them, and will be attempting to explain their resilience using a handful of contemporary examples; ‘Ličani’ by Pavle Račić, ‘Cestak’ by Fr. Tihomir Grgat, and ‘Andrijica Šimić’ by Ante Brčić. The books in question were essentially ignored by literary critics, but found their audience among the general populace, which they address through both their content and storytelling cultures, primarily within the communities that served as a basis for their (limited) imagination.
The work is intended as an attempt to answer the quandary set forth in a paraphrase of its title.
Keywords
popular literature; productivity and resilience; Ličani; Cestak; Andrijica Šimić; limited imagination; reception
Hrčak ID:
192196
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2017.
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