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THE RELOCATION INTO THE DEPTHS OF NATURE: MYTHOPOETIC TOPOS OF THE FOREST IN THE FIRST NORTHERN ESSAYS BY M. M. PRISHVIN // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 7 (172). P. 168-171

Essay works of M. M. Prishvin “In the land of never frightened birds” and “Magic bun” are considered within the framework study of the Northern text of Russian literature. The image of the Northern forest, created by the writer in these works, is capacious and complex, with mythopoetic symbolism. The art space of the forest in the works combines the real space-geographical and mythological spaces. Forest landscapes have deep mythopoetic framework, based on important Prishvin’s idea the one, indissoluble relationship and mutual reversibility between man and natural world surrounding him. The interconversion of man and nature creates perspective of a mythological panorama. In the analyzed description of the works of Mikhail Prishvin are found archetypal motives and mythologems that contribute to the mythopoetic creation of the topos of the forest. The mythmaking by M. Prishvin is a special way of mastering and cognition of the world, intuitive- natural communion with the basis of existance.

Keywords: M. M. Prishvin, Northern text, topos, image of forest, mythopoetics, mythical approach