V. R. Amineva Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation, А. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Moscow, Russian Federation, [email protected]
E. F. Nagumanova Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation, [email protected]
A. Z. Khabibullina Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the consideration of the functions of myth and folklore in modern fantasy literature. The relevance of the work is due to the need to clarify and concretize the role of national mythology in the formation of the aesthetic system of transcultural literature.
Objective: to identify the role of the Mari national mythology in the creation of the “poetics of the extraordinary”, which is most fully realized in the fantasy genre.
Research materials: the novel “The Last Time” by Shamil Idiatullin (2020), the artistic basis of which is Mari mythology and folklore.
Results and novelty of the research: it is revealed that the fabulous and mythological model of the world was comprehensively manifested in the nomination of its main character – the ancient people of Mary. Falling into the sphere of a conditional, fictional reality, the Mari people, as well as their spatial localization (the novel mentions reserved and sacred groves, numerous rivers and meadows of this amazing land) are rethought and transformed, obeying the genre laws of ethnofantastic narration. The poetics of the extraordinary is most fully revealed in the implicit opposition of images associated
with waterfowl (Ivy, Chepi, Pozanay, Mother Goose), which genetically go back to the cosmogonic myth and a predatory bird (Koshshe). It is proved that in the novel “The Last Time” the patterns of functioning of mythological images and motifs characteristic of transcultural literature are appeared. At the heart of the mythopoeic picture of the world, which is created not only in the context of Mari traditions, but also Tatar, there is interference – linguistic, cultural, aesthetic. Codes dating back to different national-artistic and cultural-historical systems are layered on top of each other and generate meanings relevant to the borderline type of artistic creation, which are saturated with the nomination of characters and natural images, plot events and their interpretation, the motivation of the actions of the characters, the genre nature of the fantasy novel. The novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt to identify the meaning-forming functions of the mythological component of the text is made.
Key words: Sh. Idiatullin, poetics of extraordinary, Mari mythology, fiction novel, interference, transcultural literature
For citation: Amineva V. R., Nagumanova E. F., Khabibullina A. Z. The Mari mythology and the “poetics of extraordinary” in the novel by Sh. Idiatullin “The Last Time” // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (2/57): 219–229.