ASPECTS OF STUDYING THE UKRAINIAN FOLK TALE IN THE LAST THIRD OF THE 20th CENTURY: FORMATION OF A NEW SCHOOL OF TALE SCIENCE

The last third of the 20th century in folklore is marked by the revival of methodology and editorial practice. International experience in studying fairy tales (creation of indexes, dictionaries, and theoretical research) had a positive effect on the development of Ukrainian storytelling, in particular its international character, but negatively created an atmosphere of national inferiority of Ukrainian science, inability to discover something new and original in its own folklore. The basis for writing our study was the work of Ukrainian storytellers (I. Berezovskyi, M. Gyrak, M. Zinchuk, L. Dunaevska), dating from the last third of the 20th century. The study also uses fairy tale works of domestic and foreign scientists in their consistent and logical interaction; points to the international issues raised by scholars in relation to the study of folk tales, its genre basis and poetics. Based on the review of collections of fairy tales, conclusions are made about the dynamics of improving the methodology of recording and publishing fairy tale narratives. Giving an assessment of the state of development of Ukrainian science of fairy tales, we can state: 1) Ukrainian storytelling of the last third of the 20th century developed in theoretical and practical aspects. The appearance of multi-volume collections of fairy tales by M. Gyrak and M. Zinchuk, as well as serial editions by L. Dunaevska laid the foundations for further theoretical research; 2) the participation of Ukrainian storytellers in international projects of indexes of plots and motives of fairy tales testified the high level of methods of studying the genre. The work of scientists has contributed to the emergence not only of textbooks, indexes and encyclopedias, but also university departments; 3) L. Dunaevska's theoretical works formed a new school of fairy tale studies, which focuses on the international context.