Glasovi, the book collection of Slovene folklore tales (39 volumes to date) is an excellent basis for researching living literary folklore and Slovene dialects. The books have been very well received in the environments where the material was collected and to which it returns in written form and commented. They cover all the Slovene provinces. The project’s leader is involved in the process by means of her initiative to start it, the research for it and the training of recorders, while she is at the same time active as a researcher and thus an example of a researcher’s self-reflection.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 1754934Three perspectives are intertwined in this book: Kuret’s personal character and biography; his paths in the face of various periods, places, politics, and ideologies; an evaluation of his scholarly and professional legacy, and his outstanding achievements that keep his legacy fresh and relevant for his successors. Today scholars are also critical when evaluating Kuret’s inputs, but at the same time, they reevaluate and develop them. In this way, they mirror the scholarly reconceptualisations of tradition as cultural phenomenon.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 240559104Professional review brings out articles and discussions on a theory of literary folklore, on history of Slovenian literary folklore, results of field researches and all intermediate phases of collected material. Beside professional and scientific articles there permanent rubrics: From our archives, Voices, Echoes and Reports and reviews, periodically also Pages for students also School addition for mentors in primary and secondary schools.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 120352256The term “life story” is usually treated as a literary and/or ethnological concept. The present article concentrates on life stories as identification documents in extreme circumstances (e.g. in prison). Based on established folkloristics, the article further addresses reflections and proposals for proper terminological renaming of certain types of life stories in view of their particular features (tale, riddle / life story, souvenir).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 29820461Small folklore forms are stored in memory as a unit with figurative meaning, rhythm and rhyme. That is why they are appropriate for different modifications: for creating of the “new proverbs” or for the commercial purposes. Copy-writers are using small folklore forms to create more memorable commercial, using rhythm, rhyme, melody, partly words, form of the small folklore form. We are presenting the modifications of small folklore forms in Slovenian language.
B.06 Other
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