Review article
On the invisible side of the book
Živko Bjelanović
Abstract
A large part The majority of the contents of the book Bukovica - folk life and customs Ardalic consists of the articles previously published in the journal Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih Slavena from 1899 (vol. 4). The last chapter of this book was published in the same journal under the title Varalice (Beguilers) in 1935 (vol 30). make contributions which entitled Bukovica published journal Proceedings of folk life and customs of the South Slavs in the long interval since the fi rst reports published 1899th year in the fourth. to the last published book titled Cheaters 1935th g. in XXX. book journals. The texts in this book contain ethnographic materials and records of oral literature.or ethnographic or oral literary nature. The fi rst four thematic wholes rely on ethnographic materials. The ethnographic nature of the texts of the fi rst four thematic sections. They described the life, customs, private law and beliefs of the people Bukovicae. In the remaining three thematic sections contain recorded a number of literary forms of
folk literature previously published under Ardalić’s name, are a kind of literary magazine that was published under the name Ardalićevim although belonging to a wider national collective creativity. In addition to these recordscontributions in the book also contains texts written by the editor: are also writers: the preface (with the account of the region and its inhabitantsreference to the end and his people, and the analysis of the content and style of the recorded material)the content-style characteristics items), commentaryfeedback (about the arrangement of materials in a book, about language and Bukovica’s dialect, and e Ardalić’sevu language) and the glossary of unknown and lesser-known words (as an experiment on the structure of the Ardalić’s writer’s vocabularylexicon). In these texts, the editor of the book analyzes the value Ardalic description of life and customs of the
people of Bukovicae by placing it in appropriate social and political circumstances at the turn of the 19th the 20th century. This review of the book on Bukovici is peculiar in that its author approaches it from its invisible side is writing a book about approaching her with its invisible hand. In the his fi rst plan of analysis are problems that emergedthat are in the process of editingmaking books appeared in, the organization and transcription of published articlese. This applies particulatly to the In this his plan and made the task of correcting the mistakes in the published articles. book Four dimensions of concealer to correct them. Precisely, the issue is of those errors noticeable only when after a detailed examination and comparison of the transcript and the original records. In conclusion, the author discusses the enduring literary value of the book.
Keywords
Vladimir Ardalić; Bukovica; invisible side of the book; organization; error values
Hrčak ID:
118052
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2012.
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