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The “Kirghiz Fairy Tale” in The Gift: Nabokov, Folklore, and Orientalism
Studia litteraria, 2021 In the second chapter of The Gift, Fyodor Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntsev recalls a “Kirghiz fairy tale” about a human eye that wants “to encompass everything in the world.” The plot of the story goes back to a Talmudic parable about Alexander the ...
A. Panchenko
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Ursa Major is the constellation most venerated by Mongolic peoples. Goals. The article seeks to analyze related beliefs traced in folklore and collected field data, reveal key mythological characteristics, and cast light upon diachronous ...
Elza P. Bakaeva
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Academic Mongolian studies in Russia [PDF]
, 2017 The relevance of the problem under study is conditioned by the coverage of Russian Mongolian studies, including Buddhism study phenomenon formation and development during the late 18th - early 19th centuries.
Polyanskaya, Oksana N. +2 more
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Clear Script Sources on Oirat History : Classification, Values, and Significance [PDF]
, 2014 departmental bulletin ...
6680, Sukhbaatar, N.
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Russian Émigré Artists Boris Grigoriev and Grigory Musatov and 1920s-1930s Prague: Between “Russian Exoticism” and Western Modernism [PDF]
, 2013 Статья посвящена пражскому контексту творчества и чешским связям русских художников-эмигрантов Бориса Григорьева (1886-1939) и Григория Мусатова (1889-1941) в 1920-1930-е гг. Живший в Париже с 1920 г.
Galeeva, Tamara +3 more
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Trickster Traits in the Folklore Image of Mazan-Batyr [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2019 This paper focuses on one aspect of the image of Mazan-batyr, a popular hero of Kalmyk folklore. Kalmyk tales represent Mazan as a cunning hero, able to trick his opponent instead of using strength and martial skills.
Boris Yu. Sengleev
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The Concept Ger ‘Home’ in Linguistic Worldviews of Mongols
Монголоведение, 2022 Introduction. The article examines a basic concept of any linguistic worldview — that of home (Mong. ger). Goals. The study aims at identifying and revealing semantic features of the concept in folklore texts of Mongolic peoples — Buryat, Kalmyk, and ...
Sesegma D. Gympilova, Bair Ts. Gomboev
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The Cat in Folklore Traditions of the Kalmyks, Other Mongolic and Far Eastern Peoples
Oriental studies, 2019 . Introduction . The article observes the material about cat in the culture of Kalmyks and other Mongol-speaking peoples. Contrary to expectations associated with the nomadic culture, in new materials on Kalmyk folklore, the cat is represented in Kalmyk ...
A. Burykin
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The Spider in the Folklore Traditions of the Kalmyks
Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2016 The multi-genre Kalmyk folklore has incorporated a complex system of symbols that reflect the national distinctness and peculiarities of Kalmyk culture. In the present article, the author studies the image of the spider that has several denominations in the Kalmyk vocabulary: araaljin - the cross spider that lives in a house and the web it weaves is ...
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How to Defeat a Demon: The Function of the Oirat Folk Narrative about Burning the Female Devil [PDF]
, 2023 The paper introduces the results of a case study that attempts to uncover the functions and probable genesis of a group of satirical tales told by the Mongolian peoples. Based on the example of one of the stories, about Argachi, a Til ...
Nosov, Dmitrii Alekseevich
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