Traditional motives of the courtship plot in the epos of the mongolic-speaking peoples

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ID22348742
AuthorsLudmila Dampilova, Ludmila S Dampilova (Institute of Mongolian Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume78
Issue4
Pages72
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIzvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1605-7880 • E-ISSN: 2413-7715
PublisherThe Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31857/s241377150006113-7
OpenAlexW2976814194
LanguageEN
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The authors consider, from the comparative perspective, the traditional motives integral to a wooing plotline, which has ancient origins and is indispensable to the epics of the Mongolian people. Exposure of common plot-forming motives is important for the study of the genesis and development of epic texts having roots in the same ethnic tradition. The structural and comparative methods are employed here to analyze the category of motif and plot in epic texts. As a result, the authors offer a list of traditional and recurrent (stable) plotlines and motives in the epics of the Mongolian people and describe the transformation of the motif’s semantics in different local traditions. Key motives with their invariants and variants, found in almost all epic renderings of marriage engagements, are defined. It has been concluded that the most ancient motives, having an established formulaic structure, have remained common for all Mongolian people. Some inserted and auxiliary motives, relating to the plotline of marriage engagement, are also identified

Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Courtship · EPIC · Ethnic group · Literature · Sociology · Zoology · Anthropology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Mathematics · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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