Sergey Neklyudov
Sergey Yurievich Neklyudov is a Soviet and Russian philosopher, folklorist and orientalist., he is professor and scientific director of the Center for Typology and Semiotics of Folklore at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
In 1965 he graduated from the department of philology, Moscow State University and in 1973 earned his Candidate of Sciences degree with the thesis "Epic traditions of the peoples of Central Asia and the problem of literary contacts between East and West in the Middle Ages". In 1985/1986 he earned the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
He is an author of over 500 articles, translated in many languages. His research interests include:
- theoretical folkloristics, with emphasis on functional-semantic study of oral narrative forms
- persistent themes and motifs in world literature
- folklore of the Mongolian peoples
- Russian epics and fairy tales
- Modern urban folklore, urban songs
Books
- 1982: : Монгольские сказания о Гесере. Новые записи., Moscow, Наука, 1982. German translation : Wiesbaden, 1985
- 1984: Героический эпос монгольских народов. Устные и литературные традиции. Moscow, Наука, Chinese translation: Hohhot, 1991
- 2001: Структура волшебной сказки, Moscow
- *Initially published in proceedings of Tartu workshop on semiotics 1961–1971, translated into English, German, French and Italian, first printed as a monograph by Russian State University for the Humanities in 2001
- 2010: Историческая поэтика фольклора: от архаики к классике
Awards
- 1972: Pitrè Prize for work on folklore
- 2022: Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia)