Naslov
"Tidings of Death in the Folk Ballad"

Autori
Delić, Simona

Izvornik
"Narodna umjetnost: hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku" (0547-2504) 34 (1997), 1; 225-240

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
folk ballad of death ; don't tell motif ; impossibility motif

Sažetak
One of the characteristic thematic elements of the traditional poem of the ballad type is analysed in the article: the situation which arises when the relatives of the hero/heroine receive news of his/her death. The phenomenon of that situation is considered in a series of ballad types, while the criterion of differentiation of its individual realizations appears as the decipherability of the information, the ability of the recipient to comprehend it. The situation of receipt of the tragic tidings is joined by certain other similar modes of bearing witness to the hero's death (the premonition of death based on signs and prior convictions). The compositional treatment of such modes is analysed (as incremental repetition) along with its contents (metaphorically formed don't tell motifs, so-called "false news", impossibility motifs), which are contrasted with the same subject in the epic poem. The similarity of the structural formation of the reception of the "tidings about death" and content are considered.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

Napomena
Tekst je dostupan online na: https://hrcak.srce.hr/43693. Više o radu vidi i u: 2014. Delić, Simona. “Sjećanje na akademika Zorana Kravara”. "Književna republika: časopis za književnost". 7-9: 38-41.

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