Ebook: Bylina and Fairy Tale: The Origins of Russian Heroic Poetry
Author: Alex E. Alexander
- Genre: Literature // Folklore
- Series: Slavistic Printings and Reprintings 281
- Year: 1973
- Publisher: Mouton
- City: The Hague
- Language: English
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A comparison of the Russian folk epos - the 'byliny' (sing. 'bylina') - with the fairy tales reveals similarities in structure and content. Such similarities can be explained by an independent development from a common source, by cross-penetration of motifs between the two genres, or by evolution of one genre from the other. A detailed comparison of examples from both genres, based entirely on intrinsic evidence, indicates that the bylina evolved from the fairy tale.
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