ABSTRACT
Losev, and Freidenberg) with the “language of proper names”. Lotman also analyzes the mythological basis of Pushkin’s poem “Angelo”, and Smirnov attempts to identify the mythological and fabulous sources of the Russian novel. Drawing on work by Frank-Kamenecky, Freidenberg and Bakhtin, Smirnov and Alexander Panchenko examine a few “archetypal metaphors” in early Russian literature and in the poetry of the beginning of the century, up to Majakovsky. Sergei Nekljudov exam ines archaic and traditional folklore, especially Siberian and Central Asian, to question the correlation between archetypal mythological models and mythological consciousness, which uses its own particular laws to structure all levels of mythic narration, from the level of plot and of composition to the system of images.252
