ABOUT THE SPICIFICS OF THE EXISTENCE OF ORAL HUMOROUS STORIES IN FOLKLORE OF THE DARGINS

Abstract

The article considers a current problem of studying the specifics of the artistic thinking of the people, their aesthetic tastes and aspirations, most fully expressed in the genre of oral humorous stories that exist in the folk poetic creativity of the Dargins, one of the ethnic groups that are part of the peoples of Dagestan. Oral stories in the folklore of the Dargins are a little-explored genre. Meanwhile, they are of great interest, as they reflect the real reality associated with the life, customs, traditions and worldview of the people. The subjects of oral stories are extremely diverse. Among them, texts of humorous content are particularly distinguished, in which there is a mockery of negative phenomena in people’s everyday life and consciousness. The main object of censure in them is greed, avarice, stupidity, ignorance, bragging, ignorance of simple elementary things, etc. Their plot-compositional construction is due to the narrator’s desire to bring the event in question closer to reality. Therefore, they often mention a specific area, there are well-known people, characters. This article analyzes the plot-thematic and compositional features of oral humorous stories, identifies their main genre features; and also considers the originality of the use of comic techniques and means in them. The novelty of the research consists in the fact that it shows the ideological, aesthetic and artistic content of oral humorous stories, which reflect the local folklore tradition associated with real reality, based on folklore texts introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.