Narodne pjesme iz Dalmacije - priobalje i zaleđe
Folk Poems from Dalmatia - Coast and Hinterland

Summary/Abstract: The comparison of folk poems from Dalmatinska zagora [Hinterland] with the ones from the coast and the islands, pictures the differences, as well as the mutual permeation of oral traditions from these two areas: on the one hand, there is the domination of epic forms and on the other, there are mainly ballad and lyric forms. These differences are a result of historical, cultural and geographical circumstances, and this paper analyses them using historical references on Mediterranean societies. (A shorter version of this paper was presented at the German symposium "Dalmatien als Raum europäischer Kultursynthese", Dalmatia as a Space of European Cultural Synthesis, held in October 2003 in Bonn. The complete version is going to be published in the proceedings with the same name.)

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