On the problem of creating indices for children’s “scary” narrative folklore. A model of an index

Tatyana A. Mirvoda

doi:10.28995/2073-6355-2018-9-61-78

On the problem of creating indices for children’s “scary” narrative folklore. A model of an index

Tatyana A. Mirvoda

https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-9-61-78

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Abstract

This article is dedicated to the problem of developing indexes for the texts of children’s ‘scary’ narrative folklore, which is especially relevant in connection with the fact that in recent year these texts, which are regularly published on the internet, have been attracting the growing interest of non-researchers. The availability of a universal and thoroughly checked index for at least one of the genres of children’s ‘scary’ narrative folklore would help to analyze traditional oral materials and, in the long run, to work on texts posted on the internet. Taking into account the literature on the subject, we designed our own model of the universal index, the description and scheme of which are presented in this article.

Keywords

motif index, children’s scary narrative folklore, children’s scary stories, strashilka, children’s folklore,

About the Author

Tatyana A. Mirvoda

Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation

postgraduate student;

1 Humanities Building, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991

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For citation: Mirvoda T.A. On the problem of creating indices for children’s “scary” narrative folklore. A model of an index. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2018;(9):61-78. https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6355-2018-9-61-78

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