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Поетически особености на оплакванията на деца (Украинска и балканославянска традиции)
The Poetic Peculiarities of the Mourning over Children

Author(s): Oksana O. Mykytenko
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the poetic features and traditional representations in funeral laments for children which is one of the main thematic cycle in the Ukrainian and Balkan-Slavonic (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian) folklore traditions of funeral mourning. Proceeding from the comparative analysis the author comes to the conclusion that the specific textual expression – concept-semantic, compositional-stylistic and artistic-poetic – is determined both by the ritual basis of this folklore work improvised in its nature, and by the ethnopoetical tradition of the definite region as well. In that way the poetic peculiarities of the cycle become the regular con¬tinuation of a certain ethnopoetic tradition, at the same time the deep feeling and sincere emotion have the main role in representing main universal genre features of the ritual text.

  • Issue Year: XXXVII/2011
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 74-88
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian