Sarah Dunningan and Suzanne Gilbert (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
“Traditional literatures” is a rather elusive concept that has always been confronted to an intractable problem of definition. Because it comes into sharp contrast with printed literature and its “fixed” objects, the notion is confronted to instability at every step, from initial performance, throu...
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2016
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| Sažetak: | “Traditional literatures” is a rather elusive concept that has always been confronted to an intractable problem of definition. Because it comes into sharp contrast with printed literature and its “fixed” objects, the notion is confronted to instability at every step, from initial performance, through intergenerational transmission, to ultimate cultural relevance, making the concept a particularly slippery one, so much so that subsuming such varied components (ballad, romance, folk song…) und... |
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