Naslov
Can a Monkey play a Bitch? Hanumant and Sarama

Autori
Ježić, Mislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Epics, Khilas, and Puranas: continuities and ruptures : proceedings of the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, September 2002 / Ježić, Mislav ; Koskikallio, Petteri - Zagreb : Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU), 2005, 255-293

ISBN
953-154-699-1

Skup
Dubrovačka međunarodna konfernecija o sanskritskim epovima i puranama

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 02.09.2002. - 07.09.2002

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Ramayana; Vedas; Hanumant; Sarama; epic; myth; fairy tale; V. Propp; H. Jacobi; V. V. Ivanov; V. N. Toporov; R. Katičić; C. Watkins; Indo-European myths; comparative philology; oral tradition; oral formulae; textual reconstruction; narrative functions

Sažetak
Already Hermann Jacobi (1893) distinguished the second part of the Rama narrative in books 3 to 7 from book 2, which he saw as a historical saga. He interpreted the second part as based on myths, and singled out the myth of Sarama and the Panis as particulary corresponding to the story about Hanumant finding Sita on the island of the Raksasas. This paper tackles that question once more, and tries to sharpen the comparative tools according to the progress of the Indo-European methodology since Jacobi's time, especially the methodology of reconstruction of poetic formulae, and of the folk tale theory, particulary the fairy tale morphology as described by Vladimir Propp. The results of that comparative scrunity confirm Jacobi's insights and endorse the identification of the Vedic Vala myth as the model for the second part of the Rama narrative, but lead to a different interpretation of the character of Sita, and of Hanumant and Sarama, as well as of the meaning of the myth, by discovering a different semiotic framework for it. They also raise the question of the common structure of fairy tales in a different context. In this way this article may open a deeper perspective for the philological, structural and historical, understanding of the relationship between hieratic mythic poetry, epic poetry and fairy tales as literary genres.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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