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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MEDIEVAL HEROIC EPIC. FEATURES OF “THE SONG OF THE NIBELUNGS” AND “THE TALE OF THE HEIKE” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2012. Issue 9 (124). P. 173-177

The article presents a brief comparative study of the medieval texts’ features: “The Song of the Nibelungs” and “The Tale of the Heike”. The author identifies similarities and differences in the language, form, structure and content of these texts. The author tries to establish the reasons for the detected similarities and differences, and to compare them.

Keywords: “The Tale of the Heike”, “The Song of the Nibelungs”, comparative analysis, medieval literature, heroic epic, military estate

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IMAGES OF WOMEN WARRIORS IN THE MEDIEVAL HEROIC EPICS OF GERMANY AND JAPAN // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 5 (170). P. 225-230

The article presents a brief comparative study of the images of woman warrior. The author investigates images appearing in medieval works, “The Song of the Nibelungs” and “The Tale of the Heike”. The various versions of the emergence of the image of the women warrior are also discussed. The paper contains a description of the investigated sources and justification for their choice for this topic. Similarities and differences of the images are identified; there also is an attempt to determine the causes of observed similarities and differences and to analyze them. An attempt is made to consider the image of a woman warrior on the cultural-historical, psychological, gender and social side.

Keywords: comparative analysis, medieval literature, heroic epic, woman warrior, Japan, Germany