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The functions of peritexts in Danish-Norwegian news ballads of the 17th-19th centuries
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Olga Sergeevna Ermakova
St. Petersburg State University
Irina Mikhailovna Michajlova
St. Petersburg State University
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Submitted:
October 29, 2026
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Abstract.
The article analyzes the peritext of Danish-Norwegian news street ballads of the 17th-19th centuries – a genre of popular literature that combined printed text, illustrations, and sung performance. The purpose of the study is to identify the functions of the peritexts of Danish-Norwegian street ballads of the 17th-19th centuries in the context of the development of print media. The material consists of approximately 200 digitized pamphlets from the open corpus skillingsvisene.hf.ntnu.no. The scientific novelty lies in introducing a number of previously unstudied historical texts into literary scholarship. In addition, the article is the first in international Scandinavian studies to trace the evolution of the peritexts of Norwegian-Danish news ballads over two centuries and to identify and describe the patterns of genre development. The findings show that peritext performed advertising and meaning-generating functions, guiding the perception of news. Significant diachronic changes were identified: titles became shorter and increasingly resembled newspaper headlines; genre clichés became standardized and were sometimes even parodied. The data indicate a gradual separation of oral and written traditions and the transformation of the street ballad from a news medium into an entertainment genre under the influence of the developing newspaper culture.
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Key words and phrases:
перитекст
массовая литература Скандинавии Нового времени
новостные баллады Дании-Норвегии
уличные баллады
устная и письменная традиции
peritext
popular literature of early modern Scandinavia
Danish-Norwegian news ballads
street ballads
oral and written traditions
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