Механата в епоса – мъжкото и женското присъствие
The Tavern in the Epos – the Male and Female Presence

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents and suggests a typological model of the most frequent epic topos – the tavern. It discusses plots wherein the tavern plays the role of plot organizer and analyzes the relation between the particular epic space and the personages acting in it. Two types of taverns could be outlined in the epos: the one located in the city (Prilep, Sofia, Solun) and dominated by the man – hero (Marco) and the second hidden high in the mountains under the rule of the innkeeper Mara. The different characteristics of the leading personages gives fundamentally different interpretations of the two types of taverns: on one hand, the tavern is the sign of a “centre”, of a “guarded”, “own” space; on the other hand, – it is a “distant”, “outskirts”, “foreign” place having its positive and negative connotations of the space object in a certain world.

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