What is a story in folklore and fiction

There are literary works, when reading, you get the impression that you listen to a slow oral speech. As if someone at the campfire is interesting to other listeners at night, a slow story. To these literary genres and methods is the tale. What is a story? Let us turn to the dictionary for explanations.

Definition

In dictionaries it is written that this is a folklore or author's work, or rather the form of its presentation. It is specific in its intonation and style. But the main thing: the tale as it reproduces the speech in general, and the national character in particular. And yet, a fairy tale is a special kind of narrative in a single work of art. It is built, as it were, on behalf of the narrator, whose position and style standards differ from the author's style of presentation. This creates the desired artistic effect.

Tale - genre of literature

In Russian literature, according to the conclusions of researchers and literary critics, the tale takes its origin from the works of Nikolai Gogol. But in a vivid manner and especially skillfully he was represented in the work of Nikolai Leskov. His tales of the righteous and heroes of the people "The Tale of the Tula Lefty and the Steel Flea", "Tupeyny Artist", "The Enchanted Wanderer" - works where these techniques are fully disclosed .

In Russian literature

What is a fairy tale in fiction? The essence of this manner of presentation is that the story is, as it were, not on behalf of a detached and objective author, but on behalf of a subjective narrator (usually a participant in the relevant events). At the same time, the text of the work itself imitates the speech of a living oral story. And the narrator in the work, as a rule, refers not to that social and cultural layer, that the author and the reader. So Leskov can be: a merchant, a monk, a soldier, a retired governor. And each of the storytellers speaks precisely that speech, which is inherent in it to a greater extent. This also achieves an artistic effect in the work. This tale also makes an impression on the listener (and the reader). This manner gives the product liveliness and originality in the presentation of plots, deepens the social context of the work of art, gives the text individual creative characteristics, gives the narrated events a more subtle and individual assessment. Take, for example, whole paragraphs of the text from Leskov's "A Tale of the Lefty", where the individual characteristics of the one described, seen by Lefty in England, sound very original and bright. Another Russian writer - a master of this genre - Bazhov. All, probably, remember his "Malachite box" in form and content also being literary stories. Pavel Bazhov, a folklorist, for the first time made literary processing of folk tales of the Urals: "Blue Snake", "Silver Hoof," "Mountain Master", "Copper Mountain Mistress" and many other works of Russian folklore, giving them a vivid form and a certain verbatim laconism. All of them entered the book "The Malachite Box", republished for today by multi-million copies.

Russian Tales

This term in the relevant science of literature can be called various prosaic non-fantastic genres of CNT: legends, epics, skits, legends (mainly in folklore). What is a fairy tale, and how is it different, for example, from a fairy tale? In the fairy tale, in general, we are talking about magic, extraordinary adventures and miracles (except - everyday fairy tales). And the characters are often of a fictitious character: Baba Yaga, Koschey the Immortal, Serpent Gorynych. In fairy tales, good usually wins evil.

What is a story? He relies primarily on legends and legends. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the narrator, and the basis, as a rule, is real events that took place long ago. And the main distinguishing feature is the presence of the person from whom the narration is based, based on folklore basis.