Contemporary Ukrainian anecdote about the Muscovites: the dynamics of tradition

Authors

  • Наталя Георгіївна Мельник Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v10i0.1038

Keywords:

folk anecdote, tradition, image, Muscovite

Abstract

This article investigates modern folk jokes about Muscovites. It emphasizes that the anecdote is considered to be one of the most productive and popular folk genres, easy changeable in terms of new life realities.

This paper represents the fact that the complexity and ambiguity of the Muscovite folklore image, his national and social interpretation are considerably caused by historical, political, and psychological peculiarities of Ukrainian history.

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Author Biography

  • Наталя Георгіївна Мельник, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University

    Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian and World Literatures

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Published

2017-12-22

Issue

Vol. 10 (2017)

Section

Mentality of world literature

How to Cite

Contemporary Ukrainian anecdote about the Muscovites: the dynamics of tradition. (2017). Literatures of the World: Poetics, Mentality and Spirituality, 10, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.31812/world_lit.v10i0.1038

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