Ukrainian Folk Prose: Survey of Modern Social Actuals

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210525.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

folklore, folk prose, funny story, folklorization

Abstract

The paper discusses problems of modern operation of social jokes as short prose genres that swiftly reacts to nowadays events. It has been estimated that compact form of information delivery peculiar to funny story has become the most productive amongst other samples of the form. The spotlight is given to necessity of social approach usage while analysing the newest folk texts. The approach foresees study of folk examples from the viewpoint of their social contents. On a par with musically-poetic compositions about coronavirus and its impact on social life a range of prosaic compositions has recently emerged. Considerable place amongst these compositions belongs to a phenomenon of a funny story. It is a layer of family and social compositions which in spite of serious danger of coronavirus infection, psychological and physical discomfort felt by a person while pandemic is a manifestation of optimistic worldview and evidence of normal development of a nation. We have separated out the commonest genre-thematic types of prose new compositions, that appeared during world pandemic (funny dialogs about quarantine, funny stories in a format of mass media news, ironic thoughts with diagnostics of modern problems, funny advises, funny announcements); we have also sorted out common functions of jokes in modern social problems. Compositions are regarded as a result of processing modern problems with folklore awareness; examples that not only present actuals of modern life from a national joking culture position but contain ironic analysis of queries with historical content; ideological, economic, moral and ethic condition of society and evidence about deep understanding of urgent problems of social life by the people. Active functioning of a funny story in modern conditions is an evidence of optimistic worldview of Ukrainian people and ability of nation to healthy self-irony. It has been estimated that authors new compositions quite swiftly obtain folkloric traits and are an enriching source for traditional folklore.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Natalya Melnik
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/27
TI  - Ukrainian Folk Prose: Survey of Modern Social Actuals
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on New Trends in Languages, Literature and Social Communications (ICNTLLSC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 62
EP  - 67
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210525.008
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210525.008
ID  - Melnik2021
ER  -