ORAL LITERATURE IN CROATIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL READERS IN SENIOR GRADES

U radu se istražuje status usmene hrvatske književnosti u našim osnovnoškolskim čitankama za više razreda na dvije razine – na razini «čistih» narodnih tekstova te na razini tekstova pisane književnosti koji uspostavljaju specifi čne interferencijske procese s usmenom književnošću. Kod tekstova narodne književnosti utvrđivali smo brojnost te kakva im je žanrovska i dijalektalna pripadnost. Kod tekstova pisane književnosti s evidentnim procesima interferencije, osim brojnosti, nastojali smo utvrditi u čemu se sastoje dodiri te, osobito, koja ime je funkcija. Pri tome smo se rukovodili okvirnom raspodjelom koja razlikuje šest najčešćih funkcija interferencije. Među zaključcima do kojih je istraživanje dovelo ističe se uvid u nedovoljnu disperzivnost spomenutih funkcija u našim čitankama, osobito što se tiče relativno slabe zastupljenosti one vrste tekstova koji, zahvaljujući interferiranju usmenih i pisanih poetičkih modela, postižu ludizam te tzv. novu bajkovitost, dvije recepcijski najatraktivnije funkcije.This paper presents the research on the status of Croatian oral literature in the readers of our primary school senior grades, on two basic levels – the level of ‘pure’ folk texts, and the level of written works of literature which establish specifi c interference processes with spoken literature. While dealing with folk literature texts we have established their quantity, genre and dialect classifi cation. In written works of literature with obvious interference processes, apart from quantity, we have tried to establish the fi elds in which they overlap and, more importantly, what their function is. The guideline was a general classifi cation which differentiates among six most frequent interference functions. Among all the conclusions drawn from the research, the most prominent one was the insight into the insuffi cient dispersion of the above mentioned functions in our readers. This insuffi ciency is particularly noticeable in the relatively small amount of texts which, because of the interference of oral and written poetic forms achieve ludism and the so-called new fairy-tale quality, the two receptive functions which are at the same time the most attractive ones as well