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Moscow: Akademiia Issledovanii Kul`tury, 2005 240 p Serie: Galereia imen filosofii Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5943960155 Language: Russian
This is an early and little known work by the prominent Russian researcher of mythology and folklore Eleazar Meletinskii (b. 1918), the editor of the Russian encyclopedia "Mify Narodov Mira". This monograph is focused on the fairy tale character of the miserable youngest brother or a poor orphan, and a genre of fairy tale based on this character. Bibliographical references. Also available by the same author: Poetika Mifa (1995); Dostoevskii v Svete Istoricheskoi Poetiki; Kak Sdelany "Brat`ia Karamazovy (1996); E.M. Meletinskii. Izbrannye Stat`i. Vospominaniia (1998); Zametki o Tvorchestve Dostoevskogo (2001); Proiskhozhdenie Geroicheskogo Eposa: Rannie Formy i Arkhaicheskie Pamiatniki (2004).