LONELY HERO IN ORAL AND WRITTEN TRADITION OF OLONKHO: MODIFICATION OF EPIC CHARACTER
Makarov Semen Semenovich
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
Abstract. The article considers the complex of epic motifs associated with typologically the earliest type of a hero in the Yakut olonkho - Air Sogotokh hero. A comparative study of these motifs in oral and written texts of the epos suggests the modifications of its figurative system, the demythologization of a plot, the appearance of social motivation elements in the written text of olonkho, close to literary forms, and the complication of a narrative structure of the text.
Key words and phrases: эпический жанр, устная и письменная традиции, олонхо, мифологизм, эпический персонаж, прием ретардации, мотивировка сюжета, epic genre, oral and written tradition, olonkho, mythologism, epic character, method of retardation, motivation of plot
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