On the problem of the genre composition of folk prose about Zhabagi Kazanoko

Представленная статья может рассматриваться в качестве одного из этапов разработки и воссоздания системы жанров адыгской народной несказочной прозы, результаты которого могут быть использованы в дальнейших теоретических исследованиях, а также для составления собрания адыгского прозаического фольклора. В статье исследуется цикл нарративов, связанных с именем народного мудреца и общественно-политического деятеля Кабарды Жабаги Казаноко (предположительно 1686-1750 гг.), который представлен разнообразными по своему жанровому воплощению, тематике и проблематике произведениями фольклора. В результате проведенного исследования в казаноковском цикле впервые выявлены морально-этические и этико-правовые предания, представляющие собой особые жанровые разновидности адыгской народной исторической прозы. This work addresses one of the complex and topical theoretical problems of modern national folklore studies - the study of one of the specific layers of the Adyghe folk prose and the determination of the differentiating genre features of a number of works included in it. The article examines a cycle of narratives associated with the name of the people's sage and public and political figure of Kabarda Zhabagi Kazanoko (presumably 1686-1750), which is represented by works of folklore that are diverse in their genre, themes and problems. The purpose of the article is to identify and study new genre forms of folk non-fairytale prose that have arisen within the framework of this cycle. The study is based on theoretical and methodological guidelines developed in the works of Russian folklorists, defining the principles of identifying a genre, motive, the relationship of various genres of folklore to reality. The use of cultural-historical and comparative-historical methods of researching the works of the Adyghe oral folk prose made it possible to identify new trends in the field of genre education, caused by socio-historical conditions, occurring in the Adyghe oral folk art. As a result of the study, for the first time, moral-ethical and ethical-legal legends were revealed in the Kazanokov cycle, which are special genre varieties of the Adyghe folk historical prose. The presented article can be considered as one of the stages of development and reconstruction of the system of genres of Adyghe folk non-fairytale prose, the results of which can be used in further theoretical research, as well as for compiling a collection of Adyghe prose folklore.