Oral Literary Elements in the Required Reading in Subject Teaching

Abstract

The paper investigates the representation of oral literature in reading literary works of
subject teaching by Croatian authors, which are prescribed by the Curriculum for primary
school and which interfere with oral literature. Interferences were singled out on the basis
of structure, theme and motives, characters, language game, homeland, oral literary forms,
etc. It is realized that oral literature is quite represented, and that interferences mostly
took place on the basis of homeland and patriotism, motives and oral literary forms. The
research proved that the elements of oral literature are firmly and deeply inserted in the
reading works of Croatian authors and that in no case should they be considered peripheral
elements as was the case for a long time on the Croatian literary scene when oral literature
was systematically neglected.