Тувинская литература в сравнительном изучении: направления и методы

Marcel I.  Ibragimov

doi:10.25178/nit.2025.3.1

Authors

Marcel I. Ibragimov G. Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Tatarstan Аcademy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7805-3167

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2025.3.1

Keywords:

Tuvan literature; literary comparativistics; historical-typological method; mythopoetic method; transculturality; Turkic-language literature; Tatar literature

Abstract

The article presents a systematic analytical review of comparative studies of Tuvan literature and Turkic-language literatures. The relevance of the research is determined by theoretical inquiries in the field of literary comparativistics, a revision of its methodology, and the emergence of new directions in comparative literary studies. The analysis of comparative research between Tuvan literature and other Turkic-language literatures (primarily those of the peoples of Central Asia) makes it possible to determine the extent to which these studies correlate with the developmental vectors of contemporary comparativistics and to assess the prospects for comparative study of Tuvan literary phenomena alongside those of related Turkic literatures.

As a result of the systematization, the main methods used in comparisons between Tuvan and other Turkic-language literatures have been identified. The article analyzes works based on historical-typological and historical-genetic methods, establishing that these methods, which dominated comparative research during the Soviet period, remain relevant in comparative studies of Tuvan literature.

It is determined that, quantitatively, mythopoetic studies predominate in comparisons between Tuvan literature and other Turkic-language literatures, which is attributed to the influence of mythology and folklore on the artistic thinking of Central Asian writers. The heuristic potential of works that employ the concept of “transcultural” (“translingual”) literature as the basis for comparison is revealed.

The article also analyzes studies comparing phenomena of Tuvan literature with those of Tatar literature. It is established that, in these studies, the theoretical foundation for comparison is historical poetics, which makes it possible to identify similarities and differences at the level of compositional and architectonic forms: genre structure, subject organization, and chronotope.

The article concludes by outlining possible prospects for comparative studies of Tuvan literature, which are seen in the expansion of the field of comparative research and its methodology.

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