KARATSUBA MYROSLAVA 2025 №2

KARATSUBA MYROSLAVA

a Ph.D. in Philology, an associate professor, a senior research fellow at Ukrainian and Foreign Folkloristics Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristic and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4836-9264

The article is aimed at revealing the complexity and richness of the folk ballad genre in Slovenian Folkloristics. The authoress emphasizes the uniqueness of the Slovenian ballad tradition, which preserves archetypal motifs. At the same time it is accentuated on the fact that the ballad genre remains an ambiguous and multi-layered phenomenon that still arouses a wide scientific interest.

The object of the study includes also the structure and thematic division of folk ballads into three main groups: pan-European, Slavic and autochthonous.

Examples of transcultural distribution of plots are highlighted (the ballad «Two Sisters»). The uniqueness of the Slovenian ballad «The Tenth Daughter», which has no analogues in European traditions, is emphasized.

Special attention is paid to the functions of the ballad in socio-cultural contexts. Mythological and archetypal motifs in the works are examined, in particular in the ballads «The Musician Before Hell» and «The Faronika Fish», those reflect the relationship of Slovenian folklore with European mythology, local history and symbolism, in particular in the context of Christian and pagan ideas.

Keywords: folk ballad, literary ballad, mythological motifs, genre features, problems of poetics, international plots.

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