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Tag: Dalmatian Hinterland

Puca niz nidarca (Buttons down the bosom)

The monograph is primarily based on a motif-thematic analysis of relevant oral literary material and on the author’s fieldwork, which draws extensively on ethnological and ethnographic research. The women of the Dalmatian Hinterland have never been the subject of a comprehensive scholarly study. Both academic and public discourse have long been dominated by the image …

Prosodic Features of the Local Dialect of Nisko in Dalmatian Zagora

The paper deals with prosodic features of the local dialect of Nisko in Dalmatian Zagora. The research is conducted on the basis of data excerpted from the corpus of dictaphone recordings. The collected data is compared with existing descriptions of the prosodic features of the local dialects of Dalmatian Zagora and with data collected in …

The poetics of romantic pessimism in Marko Kažotić’s literary opus

The present article takes into consideration the key elements of the Romantic novels written by Marko Kažotić comparing, at the same time, the romantic pattern in some of the historical plays written by his contemporaries. The descriptions of rites and myths, with the strong ethno-regional nuances which are present in Kažotić’s novels, make deeper research …