Ukrainian Fairy Tale Studies: Research Methodology and Unified Practice

Abstract

The monograph presents fairy tale studies as a separate branch of folklore studies. The proposed publication is devoted to the research methodology and uniform practice of Ukrainian fairy tale studies over two centuries (nineteenth - twenty-first centuries). The author examines: terminology, scientific methods and schools used to study the fairy tale narrative; figures of academic scholars and amateur collectors of folk tales; prospects for the development of national fairy tale science as a separate field of knowledge that finds expression in pedagogy, philosophy, art and traditional culture of the present. Recommended for scholars, higher education students and anyone interested in Ukrainian fairy tale studies.