RussianCultural interaction of East Slavic folklore and Russian literature as the national phenomena in the scientific heritage of L. G. Barag
Liberal Arts in Russia. 2016. Vol. 5. No. 6. Pp. 635-645.
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The article is dedicated to the famous folklorist, literary critic, ethnographer, candidate of philological science, and doctor of historical science, Lev Grigorievich Barag, whose research and teaching activity for several decades was linked to the Bashkir State University. The authors of the article present main milestones of his scientific work as well as brief annotated overview of the major works of this outstanding Russian philologist in fairytale folklore and mark his contribution to the study of one of the most important pages in the Russian literature of the 18th century, D. I. Fonvizin’s comediography. Multifaceted activities of Professor Barag are described, who successfully combined practical work of collecting folklore with research that was focused on the comparative study of fairytale epos. The authors consider the question of what place in Russian philology took this researcher, who made significant additions, refinements in the analysis of not only Eastern Slavic, but Turkic fairy story repertoire and who became one of the creators of the most authoritative index of East Slavic fairy stories and laid the foundations for the development of the study of Bashkir folklore. The main features of the Barag’s polemical (in terms of methodology) research strategy aimed at the justification of potentially prorealistic method of Fonvizin-playwright were identified. Attention is drawn to the postulated by Barag judgments that anticipated modern scientific ideas about the processes of genre decanonization, about semiotic mechanism of transformation of the “unfamiliar” to “familiar”, about genre originality of “The Minor” as a socio-psychological comedy, about trust of the author of “The Brigadier-General” in evaluative point of view of “nonpositive” characters.
Keywords
- • study of folklore
- • ethnography
- • folklore tradition
- • mythopoetics
- • comparative literature
- • fairytale epos
- • narrative repertoire
- • history of Russian literature of the 18th century
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