Skaz Narrative

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1830

Places

Russia (Location)

Genres and Modes

Prose Fiction Narrative

The term skaz comes from the Russian verb skazat' (to tell) and such words as rasskaz (short story) and skazka (fairy tale). It is also a word used of (traditional or “folk”) oral narratives, and has occasionally been used of works to suggest their origin in terms of such an oral context (as in the full title of Leskov's Levsha, or “Tale of the squint-eyed, left-handed man from Tula and the steel flea”, 1881). The word has therefore essentially to do with “telling”.

The designation skaz was subsequently adopted by the Formalist school …

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Citation: Cornwell, Neil. "Skaz Narrative". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 June 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1561, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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