Review article

LASTINGLY VITAL ORAL LITERARY HERITAGE

Stipe Botica ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

In this article, the life of Croatian oral literature is observed on the basis of contemporary notations.
The main objective is to show that oral literature is not merely a remnant of the past but that it is integrated naturally into the totality of a particular community’s life. Several frequent motifs in Croatian oral literature have lived on until today. Our examples demonstrate that certain stereotyped topics have survived well, even if in a somewhat altered form. They are used to establish links with earlier archetypical forms.

Keywords

oral literary forms today; performance; notation; types of oral literature

Hrčak ID:

2930

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2930

Publication date:

15.12.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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