The kalmyk fairy tale in a. pushkin’s novel “the captain’s daughter”: the sources revisited
Abstract
As is known, the question about the folklore source of “the old Kalmyk woman’s fairy tale” from the novel “The Captain’s Daughter” is still open for discussion. The searches for the plot of the Kalmyk fairy tale told by Pugachev in the Kalmyk, Russian and Ural Cossack folklore have proved unsuccessful. The article provides and discusses various opinions on the issue expressed by folklorists of the Urals, researchers and expositors of the novel “The Captain’s Daughter” as well as writers and folklorists of Kalmykia. As is evident, the fairy tale about the Eagle and the Raven is an independent and artistically complete literary composition by A. Pushkin created in the genre of a philosophical parable / controversy and included into the novel “The Captain’s Daughter” as the cue element of its plot.
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About the Author
B. Kichikova
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (Elista)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Philology (Candidate of Philological Sciences), Associate Professor, Senior Research Associate, Department of Written Monuments, Literature and Buddhist Studies
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Kichikova B. The kalmyk fairy tale in a. pushkin’s novel “the captain’s daughter”: the sources revisited. Mongolian Studies. 2016;8(1):104-113. (In Russ.)
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