Empirical Research – How To Improve Reception of Classical Poetry

• Authors: Božič Zoran
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An empirical study of understanding The Baptism at the Savica showed that Slovenian high school students had notable difficulties in decoding the basic meanings of Prešeren's poem. In literature, didactics offer three methods of facilitating reception of complex classical poetry: linguistic modernisation, addition of notes, and transmission into prose. Due to the cult status of Prešeren’s poetry, modernizations can only be limited, while commenting hinders a spontaneous reading experience; as a result, only prosification entirely solves the problems of pronounced archaization, inverted word order and abundant metaphors in Prešeren’s lines. This was confirmed by an empirical study in which high school students, who read the prozification together with the verses from The Baptism at the Savica, attested a comprehension which was twice as good as comprehension of students who only read the poetry.

Keywords

EN

empirical research; reception; France Prešeren; "The Baptism at the Savica"; prosification

PL

badania empiryczne; recepcja; France Prešeren; "Chrzest nad Sawicą"; prozaizacja

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Świat i Słowo 2015, nr 1 (24)
• Pages: 157-174

Dates

published

2015-06

Contributors

author

Božič Zoran

• University of Nova Gorica Vipavska cesta, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

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Identifiers

ISSN

1731-3317