| Keywords: | khaila, small narrative genre, Chuvash literature, Chuvash prose, theory and history of Chuvash literature
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| Abstracts: | The issues of theory and history of small narrative forms in the Chuvash literary studies are currently insufficiently studied. One of the unexplored genres of the Chuvash small prose is khaila. The first works with the designated genre definition appeared in the Chuvash literature at the beginning of the 20th century on the pages of the newspaper “Khypar” (News). The genre, having lost its “self-designation”, continues to develop in the 21st century. The research material is selected works of the Chuvash authors, in which the features of khaila are clearly expressed. The texts “claiming” to be interpreted within the framework of the designated genre nomination are found in the works of I. Yurkin, I. Tkhti, I. Muchi, Khv. Uyar, Yu. Artemyev, E. Lisina, V. Nikolaev, etc. In this article, this form becomes the object of a separate study for the first time, therefore, descriptive and structural methods are the main ones in its study. The study of the features of these works allows us to come to the conclusion that khaila is an original genre of the Chuvash literature, having roots in folklore. It is a narrative work of small form, containing metaphorical, allegorical; comprehending reality, as a rule, through a parable, and in a satirical and ironic way.
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| The contact details of authors: | Никифорова Вера Витальевна – кандидат филологических наук, старший научный сотрудник филологического направления Чувашского государственного института гуманитарных наук, г. Чебоксары, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0175-5678, vera.nickiforova@yandex.ru
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