Modelativni potencijal kletve u usmenoj epici
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2013-02-25
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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On the Modelative Potentials of the Curse in Oral Epics
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This paper offers an analysis of (prevalently feminine) curses which come to being within
the text of the epic songs. This specific form of cursing is particularly pointed in the curses
by mother’s milk. Both in tradition and in the epics, these curses are equal to taboo, which
means that nobody dares disobey them: such is the deep belief in their efficiency. Because
there is no discrimination in the epics about who can or cannot make a curse (everybody can:
narrator/singer, protagonists, antagonists, heroes and their foes, messengers, mothers, wives,
godmothers, sisters, brothers, fairies, forests, etc.), focusing on the parental and lovers’ curse
is necessary for the sake of congruence. This will help in spotting the interactive patterns in
the structure of epic songs more accurately. The analysis is done on the corpus of approximately
1500 epic songs described at the end of this paper.
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Oral epic poetry, Functions of the curses, Mother’s curse, Mother’s milk, Parent’s curse, Girl’s curse
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2012, nr 3, s. 29–43
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978-83-232-2473-0
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2084-3011