TECHNIQUES FOR TIME, SPACE, AND GENDER ARCHETYPES IN THE FOLKLORIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The events depicted in the folklore discourse are not retroactively described but are presented as if they were taking place now. There is no way to escape the time of recounting the folklore discourse since it takes place in a purposefully conditional past and narration always takes place in the present. The narrative pace in a folklore book cannot naturally be faster than the pace of events, an epic or fantastic action cannot co-occur in two or more locations, and events are recorded by empiricism.

The growing cycle of communal life events, such as agricultural and labor occasions, is used in folklore discourse to quantify the concept of time (both objective time and the hero's "environmental" time). Folklore time presumes individuality rather than distinguishing between the present, past, and future. Natural and human existence is seen as one cohesive complex, with each component embodied at the same level. Life is a single phenomenon that manifests in all facets and times. The concept of time is connected to all succeeding periods, the closed and finished period of national traditions, and the period of recollection in heroic folklore narratives.