Predanie, Legenda, Skazanie: Three Generic Labels in Vladimir Odoevsky’s Works
Posted: 26 Mar 2018 Last revised: 30 Apr 2020
Date Written: March 23, 2018
Abstract
In the early 19th century the words predanie, legenda, and skazanie started to be used by Russian writers as a generic label. The present paper considers the texts with these labels in their titles or subtitles written by Vladimir Odoevsky. First, constituent features of the corpus of the texts labeled as predanie are identified. Then the same categories are explored in the texts marked as legenda and skazanie. The aim of the research is to ascertain whether these texts are built according to similar or different generic patterns. I argue that Odoevsky treated the notions differently, and the generically labelled texts reveal different genre strategies.
Keywords: V. Odoevsky; Russian literature; genre; generic label; legend; tradition; tale
JEL Classification: Z
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Natalia A. Tuliakova (Contact Author)
National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) ( email )
Myasnitskaya street, 20
Moscow, Moscow 119017
Russia