Trebyk O. The Ukrainian folk cumulative tale: structural features and personal code

The terminology apparatus and scheme were developed in the study. In Ukrainian fairytale folklore, as well as in the folk traditions of many peoples, there are many fairy tales, characterized by such specific compositional and stylistic features that their separation into a single type does not cause any doubt. These are so-called cumulative tales. The work identifies three main types of cumulative fairy tales (link, attracted, pendulum), scientific analysis of the phenomenon of cumulation. For the first time in Ukrainian folklore, the Ukrainian cumulative fairy tale is explored in detail as a special type of fairy tale prose; the conclusions of the predecessors regarding the genre characteristics of cumulative fairy tales are specified; previously unknown archival materials and modern field records were put into scientific circulation. In the dissertation the terminological apparatus and the scheme of the structure analysis of Ukrainian folk cumulative fairy tales are developed, their main types are distinguished, the main characters of cumulative fairy tales are characterized. Appendices provide a Structural Types of Cumulative Tales Index, as well as previously unpublished archival and field fairy tales. The dissertation contains a textual analysis of complex fairy - tale structures, which can be useful for compiling pointers from Ukrainian fairy - tale prose, for analyzing ways of forming fairytale and non - fairytale folk text. Observations and conclusions of the scientific work can be used for writing works on the history of Ukrainian folklore and ethnology, development of general and special courses in folklore and preparation of methodological manuals.