From myth to literature

The book of the largest domestic folklorist Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinsky (1918-2005) is a concise presentation of his concept of historical poetics, the origins of which are rooted in the myth, and the subsequent phases of development were reflected in folklore genres (fairy tale, epos) and literary traditions (novel, novel) The book opens with theoretical introduction, and then these narrative forms are sequentially considered. The application gives brief information about "classical" mythological systems (Scandinavian, ancient Egyptian, Sumero-Akkadian, ancient Greek, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and mythology of the pre-Columbian Central America)
The book will be interesting to culturalists, literary scholars and folklorists, students and graduate students of philological and anthropological specialties, as well as a wide circle of inquisitive readers.
2nd edition, corrected