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Oral Tradition about the City of Zagreb in the Works of Šenoa

As an introduktion, the review of the subject is presented, along with the motifs and the chroniclers of oral tradition in the City of Zagreb, by which a temporal order of Zagreb chroniclers is established. Zagreb oral tradition as it appears in Šenoašs works, particulary in the novel The Goldsmithšs Treasure is examined. Excerpts from oral tradition - whole stories, fragmenst, paraphrases, associations, syntagms, reflections of beliefs - are observed as intertextual parts firmly enmeshed in fictional prose. In non-fictional prose, sketches and notes, the author himself critically examines the historical veracity of oral trdition creating a type of meta-narration.

prose; legends; Zagreb; Croatian literature; August Šenoa

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