Poetics of Myth

EAT. Romelinsky is an outstanding Russian literary critic, folklorist and historian of culture. The books of Meletinsky became already a classic of modern scientific thought. Works collected in this edition are devoted to the comparative historical analysis of folklore, mythology and epic. These are the book "The origin of the heroic epic (early forms and archaic monuments)", "poetics of myth", "medieval novel. Origin and classic forms", "introduction to the historical poetic epic and novel". Labor Muletinsky unites world folklore and large narrative genres of European literature. The source material when discussing such issues for Muletinsky is the myth. From here - sustainable attention to archaic traditions, not only representing a large independent interest, but also having the most important paradigmatic importance for later cultural formations. The study of the structural typology of traditional plots and semantics of motifs leads by E.M. Meltelinsky to formulate the concept of literary and mythological archetypes