Poetics as the Culturalcreative Mechanizm in the Hagiography of Peter of Athos
The role of poetics is analysed as a cultural tool in the mythiccreative process on the example of the «Lives» of the Orthodox St. Peter Afonskiy. The research is based on the cultural studies approach, in which structural and axiological method is combined with the method of the phenomenological analysis of mythology. The value of poetics is revealed not only as a construct of the hagiographic metanarrative, but also in the aspect of apologetics of the Christian ascetic tradition.