Academic and methodological context in the works of Russian folklorists in the view of Modern Science

Abstract

The relevance of the analytical review of theoretical and methodological foundations is due to the new paradigm of knowledge synthesis of modern science, characterized, on the one hand, by the expansion of the foundations of objective scientific rationality in the Humanities, on the other, by the humanization of natural science disciplines. The collection, and then the scientific study of Yakut folklore has a fairly rich history. The efforts of more than one generation of researchers have done a lot of work. At the same time, the vast majority of research in Yakut folklore continues to be limited to intra-text and inter-text frames, and pre-text forms of text appearance with an “immanent structure” remain outside the field of study. This trend makes it necessary to conduct an analytical review of the works of Russian philologists A. N. Veselovsky, P. A. Florensky, V. G. Bogoraz, M. M. Bakhtin, A. F. Losev, V. Ya. Propp, Yu. M. Lotman, V. V. Ivanov, V. N. Toporov, E. M. Meletinsky, S. Yu. Neklyudov, who played a key role in the history of the formation and development of modern folklore, from a different angle of generalization – the natural science angle. The purpose of this work is to update the natural science layer in the creative heritage of philologists in order to modernize the theoretical and methodological base in this direction. The centuries-old experience of observing the Yakut people about the surrounding world is contained in mythological knowledge, and it is not yet rationally understood. In the light of modern science, the objectivity of folklore research can expand the way of introducing natural science constructions that can lead to a single synergetic metalanguage. Methods of review, generalization, and inductive analysis are used. According to the author, in terms of post-nonclassical scientific approach, it is required to account for the historical development of folklore, to return to manifolds of the issues of the discipline, updating hidden for obvious reasons research directions, in particular towards priority science for understanding the nature of folklore. Thus, the revision of the academic path and creativity of folklorists through the prism of knowledge and methods of natural sciences allows us to identify the ideas embedded in the works of scientists aimed at the future and which in modern conditions can stimulate new academic searches, new studies in understanding the natural origins of the mythopoetic traditions of Yakut folklore.

Acknowledgements: The study was carried out as part of the NEFU research project “Heroic epics of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples of Eurasia: problems and prospects of comparative study”.

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