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- Title
Hryhorii Skovoroda's Use of Folk Proverbs.
- Authors
Scherer, Stephen P.
- Abstract
In 1817 Gustav Gess de Kal've noted Skovoroda's use of "odd expressions." Of the eight he mentioned, at least three were proverbs attested in published collections of proverbs. Despite this recognition of Skovoroda's use of proverbs at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was not until the second half of the twentieth century that several Soviet authors produced scholarly studies of this phenomenon. While these pioneering efforts are of great value, they are not consistent in locating the proverbs in Skovoroda's particular works, linking them directly to his philosophical ideas and demonstrating attested versions of the proverbs in recognized proverb collections. This essay will respond to these deficiencies by discussing all of the proverbs used by Skovoroda in his cycle of poems, "Sad Bozhestvennykh Pesnei" (the Garden of Divine Songs) and in his cycle of fables, "Basni Khar'kovskija" (Kharkiv Fables). On the basis of this discussion, it is clear that Skovoroda used more proverbs than is usually observed, that he integrated them into his work to clarify his philosophical ideas, that nearly all of these proverbs are in recognized proverb collections and that, altogether, his use of proverbs demonstrates his ties to the people and popular culture.
- Subjects
PROVERBS; SKOVORODA, Hryhorii Savych, 1722-1794; PUBLICATIONS; POPULAR culture; SOVIET authors
- Publication
Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2016, Vol 57, Issue 1-2, p15
- ISSN
0024-5895
- Publication type
Article