Spiritual Values in Folk-Christian Narratives of the Rusyns of Eastern Slovakia (by the Field Material) Cover Image

Духовные ценности в народно-христианских нарративах русин Восточной Словакии (по материалам полевых записей)
Spiritual Values in Folk-Christian Narratives of the Rusyns of Eastern Slovakia (by the Field Material)

Author(s): Marina M. Valеntsova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Slavic traditional culture; axiology; folk-Christian narratives; Rusyns of Eastern Slovakia; traditional values;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the etiological legends, narratives associated with the biblical plots, as well as other stories with Christian motifs, recorded during field researches in Eastern Slovakia in 2014 and 2018. All of them have axiological focus, offer a national assessment of the world formation, current events and people’s behavior. Narratives are included in the wider context of similar folklore facts of other Slavic traditions, which afford an opportunity to understand the specifics of local Rusyn micro-tradition in the aspect of axiological understanding of the world.

  • Issue Year: 54/2019
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 177-186
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian