The Poetics of Myth
Author: Eleazar Meletinski
Publisher: Azbuka, 2021.
Publication format: 115х180 mm
Number of pages: 480
Binding: soft
Language: Russian
ISBN: 978-5-389-19919-4
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Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinski (1918-2005) is an outstanding Russian scholar, folklorist, literary critic, semiotician, historian of culture, Doctor of Philological Sciences, academician of Academy of Humanistic Research, founder of theoretical folkloristic school, The author of more than a dozen monographs and numerous articles on the genesis and semantics of the myths of various peoples of the world, on mythological archetypes in the oral and book literature, on the historical poetics of the epic genres from their primitive origins to the literature of New and Modern times, including the books "The Hero of the fairy tale. The Origin of the Image" (1958), "The Origins of Heroic Epic. The Early Forms and Archaic Monuments" (1963), "The Medieval Novel. Origins and Classical Forms" (1983), "Introduction in Historical Poetics of Epic and Novel" (1986), "Historical Poetics of Novel" (1990), "About Literary Archetypes" (1994), "Dostoevsky in the Light of Historical Poetics" (1996), "From Myth to Literature" (2000). His monograph "The Poetics of Myth" (1976), which was translated into ten languages and reprinted in his country, is internationally recognized and enjoys wide academic recognition. The book covers general questions of mythological plot structure and mythological thinking, the history of mythology study by different scientific schools, various forms of myth occurrence in culture, folklore and literature since ancient times up to the present time on the basis of an extensive textual material.
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