Russian Fairy Tales final

Russian 2231 with Grove at University of Colorado Boulder

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By: Kelsey Kuhlmann
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Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)

Russian Folk Belief

Russian Myths (Legendary Past Series)
Created: 2011-04-30
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Negative analogy

“a bright falcon didn’t swoop down on the geese and ducks, a holy bogatyr did” the bogatyr swoops down on the tartar army like a falcon, but its not a falcon, not geese

Epic hyperbole

excessive absurd exaggeraton

fixed epiphet

a name that someone is always called by, good steed, bright falcon, grey wolf, Princess Vasilisa

3 distinct features of traditional bylina

stanzas
sung oral tradition

loosely based on historic events

mythological cycle

oldest bylini

examplevolkh vseslavish

Kievan cycle

traditonal

Ilya muromets

how do we know volkh vseslavevich is a sorcerer

transformed army into ants

born from snake and pricess

able to shapeshift

bogatyr's sword duty (promise to defend)

russian land

the prince usually always vladimir

the church

bylina vs. wondertale

bylina: delivered orally, sung, specific, repetition, knights, epic bogytrs fight specific enemy, not purpose to get married, not donor/test/hero, no propp, more descriptive

wondertale: delivered orally, spoken, ambiguous characters, get reward (marriage), standas, fixed rhyming, propp

prince who sends bogatyrs on great missions in the bylini

prince vladimir in Kiev

he is epic

reigns for 400 years

placed at event like the mongol invasion, anarchism

wasnt actually there

2 different vladimirs

bylina vs. actual history

bogatyrs - ilya muromets- know he was read, no idea when (400 yr span when he "served)

prince vladimir- vlad I and II

mongol tatars, but russia lost pretty badly

bylina compact history - events told like they're weeks apart were actually hundreds of years apart

very loosely based on fact

Baldak Borisievich how is is bylina and not bylina

is like a bylina b/c of epic hyperbole, the fixed epithet and presence of ilay muromets, takes place in the court of prince vladimir

is not a bylina b/c it had prop elements, like 3 tests from the daughters, involves riddles. it's not a song, it doesn't have internal/stanzic repetition

literary fairy tale

if an autor its automatically literaly

reflect a specific moral agenda

2 traditonal oral tales and literary

not the eras

wondertales, prop animal tales, the traditonal tales

censored tales

traditional bylini...are all oral

literary are novini and soviet fairy tales are literary

the dead princess and the seven knights as a literary fairy tale. how does it not conform to bettelheims interprtaion

poem form

knights are more sexualized, not asexual represent a compromise to her virtue

detailed character development, nurse plays roles of hunter, feminized

clearly has author

How does "St. John's Eve" reflect elements of fairy tale tradition and fold belief

fern flower would allow the person who picked it to see the earth's jewels

baba yaga still seen as a powerful spirit, more of a witch than usually portrayed

folk culture of "the wood sprite"

wood sprite is a leshi, leaves behind the scent of the forest, used to twist the forest paths, had to sober up and leave his forest b/c they cut it down

implied in the nostalgic tone that russia's soul/culture is being destroyed by the russian revolution

the sprites are driven out by war

novina

modern bylina. novi means new

novia similar to bylina

both have stanzic rpetition, still meants to be sung, quest hero present, some historical relevance

novina different to bylina

novina relates to real world events, is a form of propaganda, LIFE AS IT SHOULD BE, heros serve stalin, hore replaced by airplanes

why do soviets travel to pole in the tale of the pole

wanted to find the source of the weather who befriend them, tale of russian strength

soviet fairy tale purpose

propaganda

how does vladimir ilych will wake up soon represent the myth of lenin

how he died and might wake up at any moment to "check" on russia. he isn't really gone

typical villains in fairty tales for the state?

look at the two sisters

kulacs- rich peasants

foreigners/capitalists

anyone who isnt communist

religious figures - communism doesnt have religion

tsars

members of the white army

land owners

who was pavlik morozov and how does the real story of his life compare to the soviet mythology of his deeds?

turned in his father, grandfather murdered him and his brother. mother said to read what had been published. portrayed as the leader of the childrens army, in actuality was a very poor student, age could have been 11-15