| Title: | The cultural collaboration between Jacob Grimm and Vuk Karadžić : A fruitful friendship connecting Western Europe to the Balkans |
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| Authors: | Selvelli, Giustina (Authorship owner)
Selvelli, Giustina (Author) |
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Not categorized (r6) |
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| Tipology: | 1.25 - Other Component Parts |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica |
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| Abstract: | The following article aims at presenting a significant case of intercultural relations between Germany and Serbia that took place during the first half of the 19th Century thanks to the epistolary correspondence between Jacob Grimm and Vuk Karadžić. The German scholar started exploring Serbian language and culture in order to reach a better knowledge of the folk songs Vuk Karadžić was collecting at the time.
These songs constituted for Jacob Grimm an essential term of comparison which allowed him to give more concreteness to his theories and researches about “natural language” and encouraged him to explore the field of Indo-European comparative philology. On the other side, Jacob Grimm's support helped Vuk Karadžić in
his struggle for the codification of a written language in his country, on the basis of the popular one.
The role played by Grimm, together with Goethe, in the diffusion and appreciation of Serbian folk songs is inestimable: thanks to him Western Europe got to know the culture of a part of the continent, towards which prejudices and ignorance were still prevailing. The idea of reciprocal approaching of cultures was also
inscribed in Goethe's conception of Weltliteratur, which considered translation as a fundamental part of German culture and the condition for its further growth since Luther's translation of the Bible. |
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| Keywords: | Vuk Karadžić, Jacob Grimm, Serbian Folk Songs, Indo-European Philology, Cultural Translation, Weltliteratur |
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| Year of publishing: | 2014 |
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| Publisher: | PECOB Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe, University of Bologna |
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| Number of pages: | 19 |
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| COBISS_ID: | 33977347 |
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| URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:ZHBON80A |
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