Philological Studies, Vol. 13 No. 1, 2015.
Original scientific paper
A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THE BALLAD OF THE HIDDEN DEATH: MEANING, STRUCTURE, TECHNIQUES
Krinka Vidaković-Petrov
; Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The article is focused on a ballad fairly widely distributed in Western
Europe and known under various titles: The Hidden Death, Le Roi Renaud, Sir Oluf, Clerk Colvill, etc. The analysis seeks to determine its structural features, narrative types, semantic oppositions, characters, gender perspective, structural analogues in the South Slavic tradition, its overall meaning and consider certain aspects of ballad
poetics in the context of comparative studies.
Keywords
ballad poetics; ballad structure; ballad techniques; gender; West European and Slavic ballads
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172308
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Publication date:
16.6.2015.
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