Author’s Transformations of Folklore Images in Yakut Literature

Abstract

Peculiarities of author’s transformations and interpretations of folklore imagery in the formation of special forms and types of metatext structures in Yakut literature are examined from the point of view of the specifics of genre synthesis: architectonics, figurative-motivational complex, structural-compositional, poetic structure, etc. On the basis of new methodological approaches, literary texts are defined as unique models of genre contamination (meta-genre cyclic formations, montage polycyclic form, “poet’s drama,” etc.). Particular attention is paid to a system-typological study of the issue of meta-genre structures in lyrical and dramatic works. As a result of the research, the author substantiates the position that in the Yakut literature, starting from the middle of the 20th century, a synthetic form of meta-genre structures begins to develop as a qualitatively new phenomenon. It is revealed that the construction of meta-genre forms is based on the formal and meaningful parameters of the imagery of traditional folklore sources, which in the artistic text acquire a new quality depending on the author’s reflection.