Original scientific paper
THE PARADOX OF THE "FAMILIAL ELEMENT" IN THE ORAL BALLAD: THE EXPERIENCE OF CONFLICT
Simona Delić
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagren, Croatia
Abstract
The article is the final chapter of a longer paper (MA Thesis) on the
relationship between the oral ballad genre and the phenomenon of
the family. It is stressed that the family is the dominant theme in the
oral ballad and its thematically distinct feature, as well as being its
spiritual horizon, in view of the fact that the ballad understands the
world exclusively in the framework of the family and the network of
familial relations (Germ.: Familiarismus). It is observed how the
"familial element" in the considered corpus (Matrix Croatica's 19th
century "Female Collections") is evaluated contradictorily, since,
even though a large part of the material analysed shows an
inclination to the institution of the family, a considerable number of
the poems show efforts to achieve liberation from its centripetal
force. One can identify the conflict between the individual and the
family group in ballads, this having influenced the shaping of the
ballad and even the emergence of the genre itself.
Keywords
oral ballad; familial; paradox
Hrčak ID:
33469
URI
Publication date:
13.6.2000.
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