folklore

The rise of digital culture and the proliferation of new forms of folk creativity on the internet present new research challenges for con temporary folkloristics. Traditional methods of folklore analysis often prove inadequate for studying digital artefacts, necessitating a reassessment of existing methodological frameworks and an adjustment of the existing theoretical models.

This article is the first attempt to do a complex analysis of A.A. Fet’s libretto “Dnieper Mermaids”. Fet’s text proves to be of folklore origin when comparing and contrasting this text with those by O.M. Somov, V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin, M.Y. Lermontov, N.V. Gogol. The main difference of Fet’s text from his predecessors’ is the elaborate system of demonistic characters (the mermaid family, the dead fiance, water goblin, wood goblin) derived from Slavonic mythological poetic images, wide range of folklore prose material and culture.

In the history of culture and literature, women have always played an important role. Numerous myths, folklore and literary works show the importance of female characters in the content, functional and artistic solution of various problems. In recent decades, attention to the “women’s issue” has certainly increased: representatives of various scientific disciplines are trying to identify the essence of the phenomenon of “true femininity”. In popular literature, a new type of heroine is being formed – a girl undergoing her own set of challenges (quest).

The 17-th century is the Time of trouble and the age of feeble-mindedness flourishing in Russia. Composing the first Russian historical novel M.N. Zagoskin could not help bringing the figure of Christian associate in the narration. The article shows ways of interpretation of some episodes with the «God’s fool» using Scriptural passages.

Post-Soviet dystopia’s construction of the future out of the national past is analyzed as culturally-conditioned complex reaction to utopian temporality of the method of Socialist realism and treatment of time in folklore.

In the article the image of an enemy in humorous rhymes dedicated to WWII is analyzed. The central theme is the image of Adolf Hitler. In the conclusions the enemy image is shown as an archaic one. The sphere of humorous rhymes existence is shown. The article is based on the archive materials from the expeditions to Tver region.

The article is dedicated to the identification of the specific character of variation of I. I. Kozlov’s romance Insane in its folklore form. The analysis was made mainly on the basis of archival materials.

The present article analyzes J.-B. Almeida Garrett’s work as an attempt to create a Portuguese national myth. The author points out that the writer, criticizing the present he lives in, tries to revive the past by the means of the country’s history and national folklore where he finds irreproachable examples to be followed.

The article regards how the fantastic constituent is revealed on the plot, composition, and image levels of the text of The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of T. M. Akimova’s works on the study of the songs of literary origin. The author acknowledges the methodological line in them, which can be traced to the founder of Saratov philological school A. P. Skaftymov.