Title of the article:

ASSESMENT OF SERBIAN HYMNOGRAPHY BY RUSSIAN SLAVISTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THEIR FOLLOWERS

Author(s):

Elena. A. Osipova

Information about the author/authors

Elena. A. Osipova — PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Science, Povarskaya St. 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-3848. E-mail: osipovv@rambler.ru 

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 57

Pages

pp. 104-115

Received

November 20, 2019

Date of publication

September 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-57-104-115

Index UDK

821.163.41.0 + 821.161.1.0

Index BBK

83.3(4Юго.Сер) + 83.3(2Рос=Рус)52

Abstract

The paper discusses the works of Serbian medieval hymnography dedicated to St. Prince Lazar of Kosovo, distinguishes the cultural and historical context of Serbian national traditions, in terms of reflection of archetypical features of the Serbian mentality in the works of hymnology and interest to Slavic scholars and thinkers of the nineteenth century. According to I. I. Sreznevsky, P. I. Preis, V. I. Lamansky, K. N. Leontiev, heroic and volitional principle are inextricably linked for the Serbian archetype and national consciousness with the Christian worldview. The article provides a number of examples that show that the high pathos of Serbian literary texts is characteristic of both medieval and modern Serbian literature. Their representatives with high fervour praise the feats of arms, military valor, resistance to evil which goes back to the ancient tradition. In this regard, the epic songs of the Kosovo cycle and works of Church hymnography — Canon, stichera, praiseworthy words, etc., dedicated to Prince Lazarus and other Kosovar martyrs are particularly illustrative. The article notes that the works of Church hymnography and folk epic tradition developed in parallel, fueling each other in ideological, thematic and artistic terms. Special attention is paid to the facts of studying self-consciousness of the Serbian people and their collective memory in the works of outstanding Russian Slavists of the 19th century. These works were continued with by number of famous researchers of the 20th – early 21st century (V. A. Moshin, O. N. Trubachev, N. I. Tolstoy, I. F. Priyma, I. A. Charota, etc.). The paper considers some of these researchers' positions as the basis for further study of works of Serbian Church hymnography and folk songs of the Kosovo cycle, aiming to include them in the modern scientific context.

Keywords

Serbian hymnography, Russian Slavic scholars, heroism, epic.

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