The tradition of Ukrainian dumas in the focus of folklore science at the beginning of the 20th Century: Kyiv scientific school (original) (raw)

The article analyzes the scientific material of Ivan Erofeiv's researches on the tradition of Ukrainian Dumas, characterizes the methodology, peculiarities of work with the source base, with variant material, classification by main motifs, etc. The focus is on the second most important folkloristic research of the scientist “Crimea in the Little Russian folk poetry of the XVI-XVII centuries, mainly in Dumas”, dedicated to the memory of Professor Volodymyr Antonovych. The research activity of the folklorist is analyzed in the context of the scientific research of the Kiev scientific school at the beginning of the 20th century. In the first decade of the 20th century, Ukrainian folkloristics suffered significant losses - such brilliant scholars of the Kyiv school as M. Dashkevich, V. Antonovych, P. Zhitetskyi passed away. As a result of the socio-historical cataclysms of the beginning of the century, some scientists tragically died, and others emigrated. However, scientific resear...