Миф vs история в материнских рассказах о беременности и родах

Abstract

Contemporary natal narrative is studied in the article from the perspective of influence on it of mythological and story types of texts. Similar to mythological text natal narrative confirms some world outlook and behavior norms. Much like the texts of historical (story) type natal narrative is about extraordinary events in a woman’s life or about an exceptional situation which has happened to her acquaintances. The heroine of the natal narrative crosses a definite semantic border, reasserting the status of her exceptional nature.