Избранное. На пути к исторической поэтике

This is a collection of selected works by Aleksandr Veselovskii (1838-1906), a Russian historian of literature and a professor of St. Petersburg University, one of the first who started to study mythological and folklore plots, which later were called archetypal. Contents: Years of studies; Method of new poetics - comparative; History of ideals; Enlightenment; History of personality; History of poetical genres. Bibliography of Veselovskii's works. Name index.