TY - JOUR AU - Wróblewska, Violetta PY - 2019/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Latvian folk tales in studies on Polish folklore (an Overview) JF - Bibliotekarz Podlaski JA - bp VL - 45 IS - 4 SE - Eastern European borderlands DO - 10.36770/bp.221 UR - https://bibliotekarzpodlaski.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/221 SP - 137-152 AB - <p>The aim of the article is to review Polish folklore research devoted to Latvian folk tales. The main thesis comes down to considering this research as marginal, as evidenced by a small number of works on this issue from the 19th to the 21st century, which may have been influenced by several factors. Among the most important reasons are political – complex history of Polish and Latvian nations, cultural – poor knowledge of the Latvian language hindering contact with original textual works of culture, rarely translated into Polish, and also scant interest in folklore resulting from the turn towards mass American culture.&nbsp;</p> ER -