МОТИВ ПЕРЕТВОРЕННЯ ЯК ОДИН З КЛЮЧОВИХ МОТИВІВ НАРОДНОЇ БАЛАДИ ПІВДЕННИХ СЛОВ’ЯН

Abstract

The proposed article analyzes one of the most representative motifs presented in folk ballads of the Southern Slavs – the motive of transformation. The introductory part argues the importance of applying for consideration of this motive for understanding the genre of the folk ballad in general and the specifics of its existence in the South Slavic territories, in particular. The subject of research attention is Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian folk ballads – all texts where there is a motive of transformation, and where it has an important meaning. This question is not fundamentally new, as domestic as well as foreign researchers have already turned to certain aspects of the functioning of the motive of transformation in folk ballads. Among researchers from the South Slavic area to this issue practiced almost all the more and less well-known scholars, in the focus of their attention were, however, some varieties of transformations-metamorphosis or their purpose in the context of understanding the ballad text. Despite the general didactic guideline for which the motive is involved in a whole array of ballad texts, the circumstances in which it is used are completely different. The author below aims to demonstrate to what types of metamorphosis we encounter the folk ballads of the Southern Slavs. The author, undoubtedly, stops only at certain episodes of the functioning of the motive of transformation, tracking it on examples from the collections of ballads of individual peoples.