A Comparative Approach to the Ballad of The Hidden Death: MEANING, STRUCTURE, TECHNIQUES
Keywords:
ballad poetics, ballad structure, ballad techniques, gender, West European and Slavic ballads
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.
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Vidaković-Petrov 1988: Vidaković-Petrov, Krinka, “Ne-narativno načelo u strukturi
balade”, Poetika srpske književnosti, Beograd: Institut za književnost i
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Srbiji”, in Vidaković-Petrov, Srbija i Španija. Književne veze, Beograd:
Signature, 11–43.
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Sephardic Ballads from the Balkans”, Ladinar. Estudios sobre la literatura, la
música y la historia de los sefardíes, vol. VII–VIII, 317–328.
Published
2019-10-22
How to Cite
Vidaković-Petrov, K. (2019). A Comparative Approach to the Ballad of The Hidden Death: MEANING, STRUCTURE, TECHNIQUES. Philological Studies, 13(1), 199-214. Retrieved from http://194.149.137.236/index.php/philologicalstudies/article/view/387
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Literature in Intercultural Context
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