CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORICAL EPICS IN THE REPERTOIRE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCHOOL OF SAGA OF SOUTHERN UZBEKISTAN

epics, folklore, Epic, South Uzbekistan, repertoire

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Historical epics are a unique layer of oral folk creativity and reflect the ideas of the Ethnos about their past. In this article, an attempt is made to comprehensively analyze and classify epics according to the main plot-thematic groups, based on the materials of the epic works of representatives of the folklore School of southern Uzbekistan. The author distinguishes several main types of historical epics in the repertoire of storytellers of southern Uzbekistan, using comparative analysis of texts and methods of generalizing the concepts of differentiation of the epic with genre, which are present in modern folkorology.