Image-Archetypes of M. Prishvin’s Works
The aim of the work is to identify the role of mythopoetics in the formation of the type of M. Prishvin’s artistic thinking. At the same time, the problems of establishing functional aspects of myth reflection in philosophy, aesthetics and poetics, the writer's artistic language were solved. The most significant results were the following. The influence of myth, mythopoetics on M. Prishvin in the context of the development of Russian fiction of the early XX century, Russian neorealism, its artistic-ontological and aesthetic searches. The diverse embodiment of the myth in the form of motives and archetypes in Prishvin's works is revealed. Preference is given to Slavic mythologism, which, due to the conceptual and terminological ambiguity of its interpretation, is often referred to as pagan mythologism. Creatively interpreted by the writer traditional mythologism made up the originality of the author's mythologism, the so-called neonatologists. This tendency, which is not often raised in scientific literary works, is regarded as a General property of the Russian prose in the late XIX - early XX centuries, but in the individual author's manifestations. Functional aspects of mythopoetics in Prishvin's work are specified and concretized taking into account the Russian literary context. The type of artistic thinking from the point of view of the problem is substantiated. Typological similarities and differences of Prishvin are outlined, the view on the known works of literature is updated. Disclosed in this work, close and fruitful relationship of Prishvin’s attitude and creativity with the myth made it possible to see completely different than it was considered to be ideological and aesthetic guidelines of the writer, to understand his main ambition, to answer the eternal questions of existence, of the universe. The analysis of this character seems to have determined the true meaning of a number of works by M. Prishvin. The work is addressed to philologists, literary critics, specialists in the field of Russian literature, culture and its connoisseurs.