The originality of a literary fairy tale by T. Razgulyaeva

Abstract

Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of the genre of a literary fairy tales in the creative work of the Erzya writer T. Razgulyaeva. The subject of the analysis is the plot-compositional, problem-thematic, and figurative specificity of her works. Objective: to identify the features of the structural and narrative system of literary fairy tales by T. Razgulyaeva. Research materials: fairy tales by T. Razgulyaeva. Results and novelty of the research: T. Razgulyaeva’s fairy tales for the first time become the object of scientific reflection and are introduced into the context of Finno-Ugric literary studies. The writer’s appeal to fairy-tale prose is due to the desire to actualize moral and ethical problematics in a form accessible to children through the refraction of the model of functioning of society on the live environment. In the result of the analysis of the empirical material the authors conclude that structural, motif and imaginative dominants of fairy tales by T. Razgulyaeva correlated with the canonical signs of the folk fairy epos and the aesthetics of a Mordovian literary fairy tale. The specifics of the author’s artistic discourse can be traced in the original interpretation of classic fairy tale plots and images, modification of traditional symbols, modeling of interaction and communication of characters, their naming, and modernization of the subject environment. The collection «Once Upon a Time There Was a Fairy Tale» was made up of educational and didactic fairy tales, in which scientific knowledge and unreal fictional situations correlate. The dominant form of expression of the author’s consciousness becomes an animal fairy tale epos the most accessible for reflection of a little reader. The space of T. Razgulyaeva’s parable fairy tale is intertextual; cultural archetypal plots and motifs give the works an allegorical, polysemic and philosophical character, and create a historical and cultural dialogue of epochs.