Original scientific paper
ORAL LITERATURE IN CROATIAN FOLKLORISTICS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME AND TEXTBOOKS
Tanja Perić-Polonijo
Abstract
Oral literature is, unquestionably, that basis from which all later written literature emerged, but this, however, does not blur our awareness that oral literary
genres differ considerably in both mode of existence and in function from the literary genres of written literature. In an attempt to ascertain valid principles for classifying literary texts we must first clarify the nature of individual units literary texts. Since in effect our knowledge of written literature, and written literary forms, has a normative value when oral literary forms are discussed, we will start with consideration of the relationship between the oral and the written literature.
This paper shows the way in which oral literature is being treated in literary scholarship and in educational programmes and literature textbooks in Croatia, and gives several levels which could be startingpoint for more systematic approach to this problem.
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214544
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Publication date:
1.5.1993.
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