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Articles and reports

The mechanisms of oral tradition

• S.I. Gindin. Text production in linguistics, psycholinguistics and «cognitive research» (a lecture abstract)
• O.V. Ermishkina. Modifications of a text by chain retelling (an experimental study)
• G.A. Levinton. Intertext in folklore
• M. Letarova-Gister. Santa Klaus and Saint Egoriy. A review of James Baley’s monograph «Selected articles on Russian folk verse».
• O.R. Nikolaev. Why we do not sing the «Russian folksongs» from the beginning to the end (on some mechanisms of the Russian folksong tradition's transmission)

Plot, motif, text. The problems of the structural and semantic indices

• S.Yu. Nekliudov. Presentation of the topic.
• A.S. Basharin. The problems of compilation of the motif and thematic index for modern urban song lore (Once again on the morphology of «cruel romance», modern ballad and urban song) (a conference paper abstract)
• V.V. Golovin. A lullaby: classification of motifs (conference paper abstract)
• E.S. Efimova. The basic motifs of the Russian bylichkas (memorates) (An essay of classification)
• V.L. Zinoviev. Plot index of the Siberian bylichkas and byvalshzhinas (memorates)
• T.A. Kitanina. An electronic index of literary plots (a conference paper abstract)
• N.K. Kozlova. The Eastern Slavs’ bylichkas (memorates) about a serpent and serpents. The mythic lover. An index of plots and texts
• N.K. Kozlova. A serpent inside of a man (plots and motifs of mythological tales)
• E.V. Kuleshov. Characters of the «calling-texts» (âûçûâàíèé): a project of an index (a conference paper abstract)
• E.E. Levkievskaia. The computer methods of compilation of mythological functions’ thesauruses (a conference paper abstract)
• M.L. Lurie, I.A. Razumova. An analysis of structure of the oral demonoligical tales as a phase of their plots’ systematisation
• A.V. Rafaeva. The structure of folktale motifs and their use in the FOLKTALE system
• A.V. Rafaeva. Theory and practice of compilation of folklore indices. A review of "Motif, type and genre: A manual for compilation of indices & a bibliography of indices and indexing" by H. Yason
• A.V. Rafaeva, E. Rakhimova, A.S. Arkhipova. Once again on the structure and semantic study of folktale
• A comparative plot index. An Eastern Slavs’ folktale
• I.L. Tumarkina. The structure and variation of episodes in the folktale narrative
• K. Shumov, E. Prezhentseva. An index of plots and motifs of the bylichkas (memorates)
• H. Yason. Models and categories of epic narrative
• T.A. Kitanina. The plot and motifs indices. A review
• A.V. Kozmin. The Traditional Ballad Index. An annotated source to folk song from the English-speaking world. Review

Modern mythology

• M.V. Akhmetova. City in the modern eschatological prophecies
• M.V. Akhmetova. Image of the disaster in the modern Russian eschatology
• B.V. Kondakov. The land of Perm: reality and myths
• D. Mamedova. The characters of power in the literature for children of the Soviet period
• E.M. Meletinskii. Myth and the XX century
• S.Yu. Nekliudov. Structure and function of myth
• A.L. Toporkov. Myths and mythology of the XX century: tradition and modern perception
• A.V. Chernyshov. Contemporary state of the Soviet mythology

Text and avant-text in folklore tradition

• Introduction: S.Yu. Nekliudov. Avant-text in folklore tradition
• A.S. Basharin. Actualization and «deactualization» of folksong text (Towards the problem of local folksongs and local variants)
• K.A. Bogdanov. Counting as text in folklore
• I.S. Veselova. Event of life; event of text
• V. Kuperman, I. Zislin. Structure of delirious text
• K.A. Maslinskii. A spontaneous excursion as a complete text: forming of its substance and appearance of formulas
• S.Yu. Nekliudov. Variation and improvisation in folklore
• A.A. Panchenko. Klikota (hysterics) and prophecy
• I.A. Razumova. The cognitive basis of family narrative
• I. Ferapontov, N. Trushkina. «The Lord of the Rings» by J.R.R. Tolkien as avant-text (on the material of the tolkienists’ jokes)
• T.V. Tsivian. Model of the world and its role in the creation of (avant-) text

Modern folklore forms

• Introduction: S.Yu. Nekliudov. A few words on «Postfolklore»
• Joke: text, genre, tradition
  • A.S. Arkhipova. Joke in the XX century Western studies
  • A.S. Arkhipova. Role structure in children’s jokes
  • A.F. Belousov. The joke cycle of Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka
  • A.F. Belousov. The jokes about Stierlitz
  • A.F. Belousov. «Vovochka»
  • A.A. Kuchumova. Mumu and Gerasim through the contemporary man’s eyes
  • V.F. Lurie. The jokes about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
  • V.F. Lurie. Children’s jokes
  • V.F. Lurie. «The Lieutenant Rzhevskii, my old friend»
  • M.L. Lurie. Contemporary children’s jokes
  • O.V. Smolitskaya. A happening as an element of genre-forming in the Soviet jokes
  • E.Ya. Shmeleva. The jokes about Armenian radio: structure and linguistic specifics
  • E.Ya. Shmeleva, A.D. Shmelev. The standard formulas of contemporary Russian jokes
  • E.Ya. Shmeleva, A.D. Shmelev. Joke-telling as a genre of contemporary Russian speech: problems of variation
• A.S. Arkhipova. About the flying hunters and the devil riding a whale. A review of «New France Legends: from the Collection of Jean-Claude Duponte»
• V.V. Baranova. «The Child’s Vision» in the memoirs about the war: the specifics of an autobiographical narrative
• A.S. Basharin. Dialogical insertions and marginal remarks in the modern and recently composed folk songs
• A.S. Basharin. The archaeologists’ song lore of the 2nd half of the XX century
• A.S. Basharin. Song lore, Gulag and historical sources. A review of «Song lore of Gulag as a historical source (1917-1939)». M 1998 by Jakobson M, Jakobson L. and «Song lore of Gulag as a historical source (1940-1991)». Ì., 2001 by Jakobson M, Jakobson L.
• S.B. Borisov. The aesthetics of «black humor» in Russian tradition
• E.S. Efimova. Written folklore of prison. Texts
• E.S. Efimova. Modern urban bylichka (memorate)
• Zh. Kormina. From an army notebook (notes on the topics and rhetoric of the soldier’s written folklore)
• M.A. Krongauz. The language impotence in the age of mature socialism
• S.G. Leontieva, K.A. Maslinskii. A town and a tourist: the mechanisms of self-presentation of the «classical provincial town»
• N.E. Livanova. The parachute-jumpers’ folklore
• N.E. Livanova. The forms of representation of the worldview in the parachute-jumpers’ folklore tradition
• M.L. Lurie. The schoolchildren’s mock verse
• A. Lyskov. On the systematisation of the «sadistic verse»
• S.Yu. Nekliudov. The oral traditions of contemporary city: the shift of the folklore paradigm
• M.N. Odinokaia. The satiric verse (nicknames and rude-calls) in a small schoolgroup
• S.M. Prokhprov. The vision of St. Sergiy of Radonezh with a brief-case. From the latest records of the urban folklore
• O.V. Pushkareva. On the specificity and the multiplicity of the tourists’ folklore
• I.A. Razumova. Time in the family historical narrative
• T. Troitskaia, O. Petukhova. The modern reckoning texts
• N. Yu. Trushkina, I.E. Ferapontov. The structure and functional peculiarities of the tourists’ albums
• E.Ya. Shmeleva, A.D. Shmelev. «Non-native Russian speech» in the perception of the Russians

Traditional folklore

• N.V. Berezovaia. The body as a border: «the living dead» in the «sagas of the Icelanders»
• L.N. Vinogradova. The Slavic folk demonology: problems of study. The doctoral dissertation. Text of the dissertation in the form of a conference presentation
• M.M. Kaspina. The plots about Adam and Eve in the light of historical poetics. Text of the dissertation
• V.S. Kuznetsova. The dualistic legends about the creation of the world in the folklore tradition of the Eastern Slavs
• E.A. Melnikova. The modern oral stories about the Bible in the Novgorod region
• S.Yu. Nekliudov. New creativity in the epic tradition
• S. Ju. Nekljudov. The Mechanisms of Epic Plot and the Mongolian Geseriad

Ritual text in modern tradition

• E.A. Belousova. The modern child birth ritual
• E.A. Belousova. The child birth pain in the outlook of anthropology
• S.B. Borisov. The burial of animals as a phenomenon of the children’s and adolescent’s subculture
• S.B. Borisov. The variety of contemporary Russian female communicative and magical practices
• N.E. Livanova. The tradition of celebrating «jubilee jumps» by the parachute-jumpers

The pragmatics of folklore

• K.A. Bogdanov. The precedent texts in the modern folklore
• E.S. Efimova. The subculture of prison and criminal groups
• S.G. Leontieva. The poetry of pioneer festivals
• E.N. Novik. The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual
• O.B. Khristoforova. On the problem of the structure of omen
• O.B. Khristoforova. The field methods in the visual anthropology
• A. Panchenko. Eschatological expectations in a changing world: narratives about the end of the world in present day Russian folk culture
• A. Panchenko. "Strange faith" and the blood libel

Cumulative forms in folklore

• I.F. Amroian. The typology of the chain structures
• A.A. Kretov. Recursive folk-tales
• T.S. Troitskaia. The folk-tale "Teremok": the logic of invariant and the limits of variation

Folklore and the mass-literature

• O. Vainshtein. The Russian ladies’ novel: from the girls’ notebooks to criminal melodrama
• O. Vainshtein. Contemporary notebooks of love: girls’ subculture in Russia

Naive literature: studies and the texts

• S.Yu. Nekliudov. The editor’s note on the collection of articles «Naive literature: studies and the texts»
• M. Abasheva. How to become a writer (according to permian literators).
• Ja. E. Ahapkina. «I would write a poem about me writing a poem…» (poetic experience of schoolchildren: text and metatext).
• S.B. Borisov. Stories written by girls as a «naïve» literary genre. Texts.
• S.B. Borisov. A manuscript ballad «Medaljon».
• I.S. Veselova. «Granny Marfa’ diary » as an example of vernacular language arts. Texts.
• E.S. Efimova. À worldview in the prison lyric.
• M.V. Kalashnikova. Literary works in album.
• M.V. Kalashnikova. Amateur poetry in prison: works of A.L.
• T.A. Kitanina. «Bury me in the same grave with Irina!» some sentimental literary cliches in the manuscript love stories written by girls.
• E.V. Kuleshov. Adventure prose written by children. Texts.
• S.G. Leontjeva. Naïve poetry of Valaam citadel habitants.
• V.F. Lurje. N.M. Cheglov «At the sunset».
• M.L. Lurje. On the phenomena of naïve prose and poetry.
• E.V. Miljukova. «A great russian poet»: on the metamorphosis of «a construction worker from Koksohim» poetic destiny.
• A.S. Minaeva. V.M. Melkov’s naive memoirs: an essay of content-analysis.
• N.V. Mirgorodskaja. Vladimir Andreevich Blaune. Life and work essay. Texts.
• I.A. Razumova. Written tradition of a modern family: problems of collecting and research.
• A.V. Tarabukina. Individual poetic creation in modern monastic culture.

Students works

• M.D. Alexeevskij. Special characteristics of the east-slavien country festival.
• D. Antonov. Fairy-tales endings: an interpretation.
• V.V. Baranova. Peasants oral memoirs about the war.
• Ju.A. Bondar’kova. How does folk perception interpret the «chin pogrebenija» (burial ritual) (from the sources of north-russian funerals xix-xx cen.)
• M.V. Borsheva. Evolution of Moscow’s Romantic novel and urban folk tradition.
• M.V. Gavrilova. Characters, motifs and plot in a children’ formal play.
• M.M. Kaspina. The story of Adam and Eve in the postscriptural Jewish tradition.
• A.V. Loginova. À folk vision of the world in medical incantation. Illness as a mythological personage.
• A.A. Trofimov. An orphan in Slavic folklore rites and beliefs.
• L.R. Hafizova. Russian lullabies. Structure and semantics.

Sources

Texts of modern folklore

• Stories about demons from the Uljanovsk sources of 1996-2000 (given by I.E. Ferapontov).
• Interview: stories about Black Alpinist, rites of initiation into the tourists, «bylichkas», jokes. Files.
• Stories about Baxan virgin.
• Stories about Black Alpinist.
• Modern rites of initiation into the tourists.
• Legends of New France: from the sources of Jan-Claud Dupon.
• Song folklore of archaeological expeditions (from the sourses of A.S. Basharin).
• Fire company folk tradition (from the sources collected by K.E. Shumov).

Texts of naive literature

• V.A. Blaune. Texts. Files. (Published by N.V. Mirgorodskaja).
• F.A. Vinogradov. «Well, girls, now let’s go for a walk…» (Published by O.R. Nikolaev).
• Love stories written by girls. (Published by S.B. Borisov).
• N.I. Dmitrieva. «I tell nobody about my spiritual wounds» (Published by N.A. Okinina and A.V. Tarabukina).
• Granny Marfa’ diary. (Published by O.I. Mesherjakova).
• I.I. Kuzin. «I wanted to engrave all this…» (Published by V.F. Shevchenko).
• N. Lifenzev. "When I started to grow, I began to elevate myself…" (Published by E.L. Micajlova).
• N.P. Petrova. «So, I am sitting and writing» (Published by A.V.Popova).
• Adventure prose written by children. (Published by E.V. Kuleshov).
• D.E. Sidorova. Fragments of a diary. (Published by O. Sherbinina).
• Poems by A.I. Popkova and A.A. Sadkov. (Published by O. V. Gordienko).
• Written culture of prison. (Published by E. S. Efimova).

Seminars, round-table discussions (thesis and sources)

• Participants of the seminar «Folklore and postfolklore: structure, typology and semiotics».
• Seminar «Tradition of naive literature in "low" literature».
• Presentation of the topic.
• Seminar’s program.
• Seminar "Text and avant-text in oral tradition"
• Presentation of the topic.
• Round-table discussions: What is naive literature?
• Seminar’ participants.
• Discussion of a seminar.
• Seminar’s program.
• Round-table discussions:
• "Text and avant-text in folklore tradition"
• Discussion of a seminar.
• Seminar "Problems of structural-semantic index of plots and motives"
• Presentation of the topic.
• Seminar’ program.
• "Mythology and triviality:
  Gender approach in anthropological disciplines".
• Seminar’ program and thesis.
• Seminar "Study of folklore and psychopathology:
• problems of text generation".
• Explanation of the theme.
• Seminar’ program.
• Thesis.
• "Ninth Lotmans conference:
• Semiotics and typology of oral tradition".
• Explanation of the theme.
• Program.
• Participants’ thesis.

Dissertations: abstracts, resumes, annotations, booklets

• E.A. Belousova. Conceptions and beliefs connected with child birth: modern urban culture. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• E.S. Berezkina. Ethnonym lexis in oral folklore. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• S.B. Borisov. Cryptic phenomena in culture (sociological research experience of girls personal documents). Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• I.S. Veselova. Modern urban folklore genres: narrative tradition. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• L.N. Vinogradova. Folk demonology of Slaves: problems of research. Doctoral thesis.
• R.V. Golovina. Anthroponyms in a Russian folk lyric song. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• M.M. Kaspina. Stories of Adam and Eve from the point of view of historical theory of poetry. Ph.D. thesis.
• Jh.V. Kormina. Recruiting rite: structure and semantics (on the sources of north and north-west Russia (XIX-XX)). Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• E.V. Kuleshov. Russian literature of pilgrimage XIX - early XX. Ways of development. Ph.D. thesis. Short resume.
• M.L. Lurje. Party games during the Christmas-tide carnival: an essay of a morphological description. Ph.D. thesis
• Detailed resume.
• E.V. Miljukova. Ideology, mythology and poetic of mass literature works.

Outline of Ph.D. thesis

• I.A. Rasumova. Modern Russian family folklore as an ethnocultural phenomenon (north-west region). Doctoral thesis. Short resume. Detailed resume.
• A.V. Rafaeva. Study of semantic structure of traditional plot and motifs. Ph.D. thesis. Short resume.
• S.V. Suprjaga. Vocabulary of Russian folk lyric song in alien culture environment. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.
• A.V. Tarabukina. Folklore and culture of parish. Ph.D. thesis. Abstract.

Reference literature

• S.B. Adon’eva. Literature on Russian traditional folklore.
• A.S. Arhipova. Modern urban folklore: jokes.
• A.S. Basharin. Collections of modern song folklore.
• Bibliography on naive literature.
• M.V. Modern urban folklore: albums.
• Ò.À. Kitanina. Indexes of folklore texts.
• M.L. Lurje. Bibliography on the theme "Christmas-tide carnival".
• Ê.À. Maslinskij. Annotated bibliography on the theme "cognitive map and image of environment".
• E.M. Meletinskij. Academic records and biography. List of works.
• S.Ju. Nekljudov. Urban songs in XX cent. (materials for the bibliography).
• S.Ju. Nekljudov. List of publications.
• E.S. Novik. List of the main publications.
• A.A. Panchenko. List of the main publications.
• À.N. Rozov. Folklore and ethnographic materials in the monthly publication «Church Messanger" (annotated index).
• À.N. Rozov. Folklore and ethnographic materials in the monthly publication "A handbook for the country priests" (1860 Ã 1917). Annotated index.
• H. Jason. List of the main publications.

Programs of courses

• S.B. Adonjeva. Folklore and gender stereotypes in modern society.
• A.F. Belousov. Modern urban folklore.
• Ê.À. Bogdanov. Anthropology of medicine: medical practice in Russian traditional culture.
• Ê.À. Bogdanov. Everyday occurrence tradition: Semiotics of folklore.
• S.Uj. Nekljudov. Basic folkloristics.
• Î.R. Nikolaev. Program of the course "Russian folklore".
• À.À. Panchenko. Folk religion and religious folklore in Russia.
• À.L. Toporkov. Folk rites and beliefs.
• Î.B. Hristoforova. Program of the course "Visual anthropology"

Folklorist’ library

• L.N. Vinogradova. Folk demonology of Slavs: problems of research.
• S.I. Gindin. Text generation in linguistics psycholinguistics and "cognitive research" (thesis of the lection)
• Å.Ì. Meletinskij, S.Uj. Nekljudov, Å.S. Novik. Word status and concept of genre in folklore.
• S.Uj. Nekljudov. Other world images in folk beliefs and in traditional texts.
• S.Uj. Nekljudov. On the oral and written word.
• S.Uj. Nekljudov. Russian folkloristics and structural-semiotic researches.
• S.Uj. Nekljudov. Traditions of oral and written culture: correlation and typology.
• S.E. Nikitina. Subject and methods of linguofolkloristics.
• E.S. Novik. Archaic beliefs in the light of interpersonal communication
• E.S. Novik. A «thing-sign» and a «thing-gesture»: towards the semiotic interpretation of fetish
• E.S. Novik. Semiotic functions of voice in the folklore and beliefs of the peoples of Siberia
• E.S. Novik. The character system of Russian folktale
• E.S. Novik. The structure of folktale trick
• E.S. Novik. Folklore – rite – beliefs: an experience of the structural and semantic study of the oral culture texts
• Elena Novik. The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual
• S.M. Tolstaia. Ethnoliguistics: contemporary situation and prospects
• T.V. Tsyvian. A world model and its role in forming (avant) text

Web-resources on folklore

• Universities
• Institutes
• Magazines
• Societies
• Archives
• Personal web-pages
• Links collections
• In Russia

Reviews of sites

• Boyan: Russians’ poetic speech
• From the manuscript foundations of IMFE: materials of the «female studies» in the field records of Liudmila Shevchenko
• Cyberstol
• Proverbs and sayings
• Traditional Russian culture
• The Folklore Archive of the Nizhnii Novgorod’ N.I. Lobachevskii State University
• De Proverbio: Electronic Publisher of Proverb Studies and Collections
• International Society for Contemporary Legend Research