Lowbrow Skepticism or Highbrow Rationalism? (Anti)Legends in 19th-Century Croatian Primers<br>Pučki skepticizam ili elitni racionalizam? (Anti)predaje u hrvatskim početnicama 19. stoljeća</br>

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  • Marijana Hameršak Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Šubičeva 42, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v14i0.1605

Abstract

The article discusses one of the numerous intersections of orality and literacy in the long 19th century in Croatian society. More specifically, it focuses on the orality of Croatian primers published from 1779 until the start of World War I and the issue of the primers’ implementation of narratives which are today considered characteristic of oral communication and labeled as pseudo-, negative-, anti-legends (Dégh & Vázsonyi 1976). Looking into the issue of marginality of (anti)legends in the folklore collections and folkloristic research, and after discussing differences and similarities between (anti)legends published in primers and documented in folklore collections of this and the following period, the article discusses the question of whether their inclusion in long 19th century Croatian primers was the implementation of lowbrow skepticism or the intrusion of highbrow rationalism, or both.

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Published

2011-10-17

How to Cite

Hameršak, M. (2011). Lowbrow Skepticism or Highbrow Rationalism? (Anti)Legends in 19th-Century Croatian Primers<br>Pučki skepticizam ili elitni racionalizam? (Anti)predaje u hrvatskim početnicama 19. stoljeća</br>. Studia Mythologica Slavica, 14, 143–157. https://doi.org/10.3986/sms.v14i0.1605

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LJUDSKO PRIPOVEDNIŠTVO IN VEROVANJA / FOLK NARRATIVE AND BELIEFS