Abstract

The Role of Folklore in Teaching Literature (the Case of Folk Song)

Folk art, mainly folk songs, is different in typology from standard literary work as a unique individual artistic creation. Songs originate from different cultural motifs: it is the combination of music and verbal art; it does not make a strict distinction between the creator and the recipient of the song; it depends on the forms of verbal dissemination; it takes account of sharing the song within the community as well as of exclusively non-written preservation; it counts with variations, respects its migration in time and space; it is often in close contact with a craft fair production. These unique characteristics are reflected in topics, content and forms (we demonstrate it on the collection of Antonín Francl from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries). However, these characteristics cannot be adequately captured solely by applying the criteria of literary criticism. School teaching should take this distinction into consideration.

Keywords literatura folklor lidová píseň folklorní tematika literární výchova literature folklore folk song folk topics teaching literature