THE TYPOLOGY OF LEGENDS ABOUT HISTORICAL FIGURES IN KARAKALPAK AND ENGLISH FOLKLORE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7634174Keywords:
image, historical figure, historical story, plot, genre, hero, motive, episode, typology, Ernazar Alakoz, King Arthur.Abstract
Legends, which include part of the folklore heritage, are one of the main genres of oral creativity of the Turkic peoples. In the world science of folklore and literary criticism, a large number of works have been published on the definition of theoretical descriptions of legends. In this article we tried to describe one of the epic genres of folk oral tradition, historical legends, their characteristic features, images, historical figures and plot issues on the example Karakalpak and English folklore materials. The issues of their typology are also determined.
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