The Ballads of Marko Kraljevic (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

David Halyburton Low

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332615090 ISBN 13 : 9781332615094

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Ballads of Marko Kraljevic

Kacic made such skilful use of his themes, his additions and alterations were made with such easy mastery of traditional epithet and formula, that the South Slavs themselves overlooked the signs of modern treatment and accepted the book as a genuine record of the past. Numerous manuscript copies were made, certain pieces found their way into the rustic repertory, so that peasants and countrymen sang songs from Kacic'' in the fields.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Western Europe suspected the existence of a great traditional folkpoetry among the Southern Slavs, the literati of Ragusa had occasionally amused themselves by writing down the songs and ballads current among the people. These manuscript copies were handed round and read within the very small and select circle of the initiate, but remained unknown to the outer world until the middle of the nineteenth century. There was one important exception. This was the work of the Franciscan monk Andrija Kacic Mio ic, who, in 1756, published in Venice his Raxgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga a book which had immediate success in Dalmatia and the islands. It was not a collection of genuine folk-songs, although the old traditional themes formed the basis of it. Kacic was fired with a missionary zeal for what he conceived to be historical truth, and as he was deeply read in the chronicles of his race, he altered, adapted and supplemented his material accordingly. The result which he aimed at, and which he achieved, was to produce an ordered account of Slavonic kings and heroes in such form as would make the strongest appeal to his fellow-countrymen by stimulating their pride of race. In the whole collection there are only two or three indubitable folkballads, and even these have been manipulated in the interest of an illusory truth to fact. Notwithstanding the artifice of the work, Andrija Kacic Miosic (i 690-1760) was a native of Makarska in Dalmatia. Generally known as Kacic. The first known edition of the Raxgovor ugodni appeared in 1756. In 1757 Bodmer printed the Kriemhilden Rache und die Klage and, as Carlyle remarks, a certain antiquarian tendency in literature, a fonder, more earnest looking back into the Past, began about that time to manifest itself in all nations. The Ntbelungen Lied, p. i. 2D as serbische Volkslied in der deutschen Literatur, by Dr Milan Ourcin, L
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Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1922, this book contains D. W. Low's English translation of the Slavic ballads concerning Prince Marko, a fourteenth-century king in the Balkans region. The text is introduced with a biography of the historical Marko, a brief history of Slav and Serbian folk poetry, as well as information on how the poem would have been performed originally by bards. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in folklore, epic poetry or the history of the Balkans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332615090
• ISBN 13: 9781332615094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243
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