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The High and the Low in Oral and Written Literature

In the first part of the article, the author presents the literary-historical and cultural aspects of the concepts of the high and the low, starting from the Slavic mythology, poetic visions of space and theories of high and low literary styles, to two cultures (high and low) in the medieval and early modern period. The second part of the article discusses the relationships between the high and the low in Croatian poems written "in the folk style", especially those from the Collection of Nikša Ranjina dating from 1507.

high and low; high culture; low culture; folk poetry; poems

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