Literary and Mythological Portraits: Characters and Archetypes in Popular and Original Legends of Belarus and Spain
2020, Issue 20
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Abstract
Our article explores the general features of folk and literary legends in which the characters perform the main formal, narrative and symbolic functions. We divided said characters into two groups according to the classification of J. Caro Baroja: on the one hand, we considered examples when real or fictional historical characters appear (Lady Godiva, Napoleon Bonaparte); on the other hand, we took into account some archetypes of characters of no historical significance (bandit, witch, Jew). Based on these examples, we began a comparative study of this type of legends in Spanish and Belarusian literature, both in folk prose and in authorial fiction, which is reflected in the works of Jan Barščeŭski and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
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