Myth vs. history in the natal narratives about pregnancy and birth Cover Image

Миф vs история в материнских рассказах о беременности и родах
Myth vs. history in the natal narratives about pregnancy and birth

Author(s): Oksana Labaschuck
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Metaphysics, Semantics, Pragmatics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: folk memorat; natal narrative; mythological text; story text; motif; plot;

Summary/Abstract: In the article contemporary natal narrative is studied from the perspective of the influence of mythological and story types of texts on it. Natal narrative being similar to mythological text confirms some norms of world outlook and behavior. Natal narrative, like many texts of the story type, is about extraordinary events in a woman’s life or about an exceptional situation, which has happened to her acquaintances. The heroine of the natal narrative crosses a definite semantic border, reasserting the status of her exceptional nature.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 142-148
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian