Folk models in stories about the occupation during the Great Patriotic War. Narrativization scenarios and he ways of combining motifs
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2023-6-2-69-96
Abstract
Folklorists often use classification systems such as catalogues of motifs or folk types. This method is widely applied to tales or legends. At the same time, it is used less often during analysis of stories about the recent past (for instance, about a war). I apply this method to oral stories collected on an expedition to the Bryansk region to make a motif-index. Using this method allows me to classify these texts, highlight the main themes and divide motives into two groups. I also examine how motives are combined in a longstories and, based on these combinations, I distinguish two scenarios of narrativization. There are two scenarios: incriminatory and apologetic. These two ways of combining motives allow narrators to express two different opinions on the ethical dilemmas of the wartime. The set of plots, as well as popular ways of combining them, shows us that these ethical dilemmas are most important and interesting for the people we have talked to.
Supporting agencies: This article was prepared within the framework of the “Karamzin Scholarships – 2022” program with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and the School of Contemporary Humanitarian Studies of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow).
About the Author
E. A. Zakrevskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ekaterina A. Zakrevskaya
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Zakrevskaya E.A. Folk models in stories about the occupation during the Great Patriotic War. Narrativization scenarios and he ways of combining motifs. Folklore: Structure, Typology, Semiotics. 2023;6(2):69-96. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2023-6-2-69-96
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