LITERARY PLOTS IN PERFOMANCE TRADITION OF TUVANS

Abstract

The paper considers the role and significance of the talent of a story-teller in adaptation of fairy-tale plots borrowed from Mongolian literary records to Tuvan performance tradition. The theoretic scholarly works dedicated to the study of improvisation in the art of story-tellers in epic traditions of different peoples provided a base for this article. Having studied various versions of Tuvan tales borrowed from literary sources, the author comes to a conclusion that the art of any story-teller is a combination of two basic components: traditionalism and improvisation, which are typical of folklore in general. The story-telling is connected not only with the talent of a story-teller but also with ritual and magic properties of the story. Thus, the borrowed literary plots, which penetrated Tuvan folklore in different ways, became deeply rooted in local performance tradition.

Keywords

• theory of improvisation, performance tradition, literary records, borrowed plots, tales, story-teller