Poetics of myth

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinsky (1918-2005)-outstanding Russian scientist, folklorist, literary critic, semiologist, cultural historian, doctor of philological sciences, academician of the Academy of Humanitarian Research, founder of the research school of theoretical folklorism, author of more than a dozen monographs and many articles on the genesis and semantics of various myths the peoples of the world, about the mythological archetypes in oral and book literature, about the historical poetics of epic genres from their primitive sources to the literature of the new and recent times, including the books “Hero of a fairy tale. The origin of the image ”(1958),“ The origin of the heroic epic. Early forms and archaic monuments ”(1963),“ Medieval Roman. Origin and classical forms ”(1983),“ Introduction to the historical poetics of epic and novel ”(1986),“ The historical poetics of the novel ”(1990),“ On Literary Archetypes ”(1994),“ Dostoevsky in the light of historical poetics ”(1996) , “From myth to literature” (2000) International fame and wide academic recognition was earned by the monograph “Poetics of the myth” (1976), translated into ten languages ​​and withstanding several reprints in the author’s homeland. The book on extensive textual material discusses the general issues of the structure of the mythological plot and mythological thinking, the history of the study of mythology with various scientific schools, the diverse forms of existence of the myth in culture, folklore and literature from ancient times to the present