Поэтика сюжетов в составе Волоколамского патерика
The Poetics of the Narratives in the Paterikon of Volokolamsk

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the narrative structure of the Patericon of Volokolamsk in the context of the interaction between written and oral traditions. It focuses on identifying and describing typological parallels between patericon narratives and folklore tales, as well as “wandering plots” of world literature. The material consists of the stories of the Paterikon of Volokolamsk, examined in comparison with texts of Byzantine, Slavic-Balkan, and Western European literary traditions, as well as with Slavic folklore. In particular, the study considers the narrative of the heretical priest and the Eucharistic miracle, eschatological visions, prophetic dreams, the motif of crossing a river of fire, the personification of Monday, and the motif of a hero rescued by a faithful animal. Some narratives derive from written sources, while others reveal stable typological correspondences with folklore traditions. The incorporation of oral tales into the patericon narrative is shown to be accompanied by their adaptation within the framework of the hagiographic canon. As a result, the Paterikon of Volokolamsk emerges as a text in which the complex interaction of different cultural layers is realized, shaping a distinctive poetics of narrative.

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