ГРОТЕСКНО У ПОЕТСКОЈ СТРУКТУРИ ФОЛКЛОРНЕ ЗАГОНЕТКЕ
THE GROTESQUE IN THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF A FOLKLORE RIDDLE

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the nature of grotesque images in oral riddles conditioned by various approaches to the genre as well as by conceptual fluidity of the grotesque. Examples are singled out that are based on hyperbolization; illogical actions and/or positioning of a mysterious agent; fantastic attribution; examples that comprise the grotesque until the riddle is solved and those that only become such in connection with the solution. The functional aspect of grotesque forms in the riddles varies from the typical eerie, shocking effect in the process of defamiliarization of daily life, through comical to ironic and parodist principles in the understanding of the mystery concept; from the conscious creation of a poetic image, confusing the interlocutor, to the expression of ambivalent view of the world as a central philosophy of folklore tradition.

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