КИТАЙСЬКА НАРОДНА КАЗКА ПРО МА ЛЯНА: ОКРЕМІ АСПЕКТИ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ

Abstract

The article focuses on certain approaches of investigation of the folk tale in a Chinese fairytale. The investigations of Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese folklorists and literary critics were taken under consideration. The concepts of M. Vashchenko, L. Kalashnyk, O. Naumovska, I. Nesina, O. Stavenko, O. Uporov, etc. form the basis of the study. This research concentrates on the scientific analyses carried out by the Chinese scientists Zhong Jingwen, Liu Shuohua, Qi Liangxu, Gu Xijia, Wang Guohong, Zhu Ruishuang, Liu Jingyu, Du Liyuan, Dandan Tong. The problem of the existence of the fairytale “Ma Liang and His Magic Brush” in different Ukrainian translations and interpolations was explored. Special attention was also paid to the fairytale application in Ukrainian cultural and educational discourse. The investigation proposes the fairytale “Ma Liang and His Magic Brush” translation made by one of the co-authors that provided additional possibilities to comparative studies. The innovative perspective in the research development was fulfilled. The textual analysis of the fairytale structure was created on the three variants translations of the fairytale. This is the first investigation of the fairytale “Ma Liang and His Magic Brush” in Ukraine. The authors of the research distinguished the structural elements of the fairytale: the title (the attention was paid to the spelling of the name of the main character and the concept of the title), the composition (the comparison with the traditional fairytale model was concluded), the characters (the main attention was paid to the Ma Liang and the old man – the contributor).