NARODNA KNjIŽEVNOST I IDENTITETSKE PROMENE U SRPSKOJ KNjIŽEVNOSTI

New approaches to oral literature in teaching bring to the fore the questions of classification and terminology, the phenomenon of authorship, the process of composing and tradition, the complexity of reception, the specificities of oral genres and their poetics. The terms ’oral formula’ and ’formulativity’ also stand out in these approaches as some of the most important elements of oral poetic grammar. In all of these researches focused on poetics, the identitary character of Serbian oral literature as “our classic, one and true” (Vasko Popa) should not be neglected, nor its specific roles in teaching and education: aesthetic, ethical, epistemological, cultural, educational functions.