PROFESSOR EVGENIY NEYOLOV. FAIRY TALE AND FANTASY RESEARCHER: CELEBRATING HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

Abstract

The review covers the materials of a research seminar dedicated to the anniversary of Professor Evgeniy Neyolov (1947–2014), which was a continuation of the seminar in memory of his teacher, Professor Irina Lupanova. The purpose of these seminars is to broaden the scope of the study of folklore and literary fairy tales, modern school folklore, children’s literature, science fiction and fantasy through in-depth familiarity with the personalities and works of Irina Lupanova and Evgeniy Neyolov. The purpose of these seminars is to broaden the scope of the study of folklore and literary fairy tales, modern school folklore, children’s literature, science fiction and fantasy. The discussion of the proposed topics involves professional polemics and deepens and consolidates the material, as the participants include not only educators and scholars but also undergraduate and graduate students as well as high school teachers and students. The papers and presentations delivered at this seminar reveal the innovative and original nature of Ev- geniy Neyolov’s research and demonstrate the continuity of the approaches of contemporary researchers and the methodology developed by the scholar. In the world of fairy tale and fantasy unexpected associations, meanings and motifs are revealed, which is shown in the presentations, primarily devoted to the work of a variety of writers: Yevgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Gnetnev, Veniamin Kaverin, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Mikail Bulgakov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Viktor Pelevin.

Keywords: children’s literature, folk and literary fairy tale, science fiction, fantasy, Evgeniy Neyolov