WHY IS THE ADMIRER CALLED "A BUTTOCK" IN DITTIES |
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| 2024 |
| LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE |
| scientific article | 398.86 | ||
| 7-20 | русская частушка, именования ухажера (милого), эротика в фольклоре, комизм, обрядовое антиповедение, культура народных лицедеев, Russian chastushka (folk ditty), nomination of an admirer (a suitor), eroticism in folklore, comic, ritual anti-behavior, culture of folk performers |
| The article examines one of the nominations of an admirer (a suitor) frequently found in Russian folk ditties (chastushkas) - “yagodinochka” 20 (derived simultaneously from homonyms - old-fashioned “cheek” and “buttock”). The author reveals the erotic undertone of the word, caused by such ancient binary oppositions in human consciousness as top/bottom, desirable/unacceptable, giving birth/killing, terrible/funny, etc. All this found reflection in traditional comparison of the head and the lower body, the face and the buttock (the ritualised inversion of these oppositions, as well as their ‘carnival’ function, was studied - albeit on Western European material - by M.M. Bakhtin). The article explores various semantic nuances of such a comparison as they are manifested in different genres of Russian folklore, in the comic culture of folk performers, and in certain ritual practices. |
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