Original scientific paper
ORAL LITERATURE IN CROATIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL READERS IN SENIOR GRADES
Andrijana Kos-Lajtman
; Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb Branch – Čakovec
Abstract
This paper presents the research on the status of Croatian oral literature in the readers of our primary school senior grades, on two basic levels – the level of ‘pure’ folk texts, and the level of written works of literature which establish specifi c interference processes with spoken literature. While dealing with folk literature texts we have established their quantity, genre and dialect classifi cation. In written works of literature with obvious interference processes, apart from quantity, we have tried to establish the fi elds in which they overlap and, more importantly, what their function is. The guideline was a general classifi cation which differentiates among six most frequent interference functions. Among all the conclusions drawn from the research, the most prominent one was the insight into the insuffi cient dispersion of the above mentioned functions in our readers. This insuffi ciency is particularly noticeable in the relatively small amount of texts which, because of the interference of oral and written poetic forms achieve ludism and the so-called new fairy-tale quality, the two receptive functions which are at the same time the most attractive ones as well.
Keywords
oral and written literature; interference processes; readers; interference functions
Hrčak ID:
34796
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2008.
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