DREAMING AND STORYTELLER

Abstract

A dream in folklore is a topic for researchers, in fact, promising. A dream is an expressive form of artistic language. Despite the existence of a number of deep, meaningful works devoted to the analysis of dreams in the epic, fairy tales and tales of love, the analysis of the functionality of dreams in the structure of legends remains without attention. Appeal to the issue of poetics and typology of dreams in legends determines the relevance of this study.
Dreams and legends are considered from the standpoint of a communicative act. A comparison is made between the analysis of the text of the legends and the analysis of the dream motif in the legends. Topics discussed: the relationship of the dreamer and the narrator in the text of legends