Original scientific paper
NEW RECORDS OF CROATIAN ORAL LITERATURE Collecting the materials and their professional valorization
Stipe Botica
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The students who attend the seminar within the course “Croatian Oral Literature”, which is Taught at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, have been taking the records of the oral literature texts throughout Croatia ever since 1986.
Since then they have written down thousands of lyric poems, different forms of folk tales (fairy tales, legends, anecdotes, fables, narratives and jokes), proverbs and riddles. There is also a number of epic poems, dramatic and rhetorical forms.
Through systematization of the materials and their professional description and interpretation we can follow the life of the oral texts in live performance, the relation between archetype and variant, transformational course of the forms, their place in traditional culture and Croatian literature in general.
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214735
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Publication date:
10.10.1998.
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