On the question of the narrative phenomenon treatment in modern humanities. Its essence and sources
Despite a wide circulation of a narrative phenomenon in the methodologies of the humanitarian sense disciplines there is a set of its treatments. In the article various narrative concepts are analyzed. The narrative problem P. Riker's and L.Vitgenstein's concepts in key for our research is especially allocated. An integrated narrative phenomenon definition formulated on the basis of its attributive characteristics is offered. The operationally functional aspect of the phenomenon is especially accentuated.