MEANS OF EPIC EXPRESSIVENESS IN THE BURYAT ULIGERS ABOUT GESER

The article considers some ways of actualization of semantic and poetic expressiveness in the uliger text. It studies different types and functional peculiarities of such means of epic expressiveness as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, epithet, and simile. The analysis is based on the versions of the Buryat epos about Geser recorded from well-known uligershins (Alfor Vasilyev, Peokhon Petrov, Manshud Imegenov, Elbon Shalbykov). However, most of the examples are taken from the epic «Abai Geser Bogdo Khaan» (the ekhirit-bulagat version of the narrator A. Vasiliev). The originality and uniqueness of the imagery system of the Buryat epic in general and uliger «Abai Geser Bogdo Khaan» in particular are revealed at all levels of content and expression plans. The lingvostylistic analysis of the mentioned uliger text suggests that the poetics of the epos is a sophisticated but yet a highly organized system, which had been developing and perfected for a long time. The imagery means of the researched uligers are remarkable for a variety of forms and frequency of their usage.

The main epic feature is the semantic nature of allegory serving as a method of imaginative perception of reality and which is transmitted by general folklore and literature, colloquial metaphorical figurative expressions. The epic speech means in general and comparisons in particular are characterized by laconism, rhythmic organization, being refined and having some formula. The most productive in the poetics of the Buryat uligers imagery means, having high artistic expressiveness and contributing to the creation of vivid epic images and historic styling are identified and analyzed in the paper. All the revealed elements perform a semantic, expressive-emotional function in the Buryat epic. Their use is determined by the internal needs of the heroic story and the general requirements of the epic depiction. It is obvious that in the course of historical development the epos has developed its own unique imagery system. Narrators used the traditional forms that had been assigned to certain realities of the depicted phenomena and events. The aesthetics and pragmatism of the Buryat epic of Geser, its considerable axiological potential is revealed in the ethnospecific imagery elements (metaphors, metonymy, epithets, simile, etc.) of the poetic system.

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