Yurij G. Antonov Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Profes­sor, Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russia  [email protected]
Svetlana V. Sheyanova Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Ogarev Mordovia State University Saransk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. Currently among the conceptual analytical problems of Mordovian literary studies the question about forms and degree of correlation of folk tradition and literary system is realized as actual. Mythopoetic method allows not only to assess the aesthetic characteristics of the artistic whole, but also to identify the vectors of the writer’s thinking of psychological and mythological ideas of the people, ethnographic realities, specifics of synthesis of authentic cultural environment and individual author's conceptualization. Traditionally ceremonial culture is the sphere of manifestations of spiritual and moral, national and philosophical, cosmological ideas of the people. Its creative reception focuses on a realistic reconstruction of historical and political, national and cultural past and can be evaluated as a unique fact of ethnic Renaissance. This article analyses the ways, the techniques, the originality of learning, the author's interpretation and reconstruction of traditional forms of the Mordovian (Moksha and Erzya) folklore in the literary experience of the national writers of' different historical and cultural epochs; the article evaluates the productive role of the elements of traditional ceremonial culture at different levels of the artistic whole – in the structuring of the plot continuum, characters’ sphere, in reconstruction of national flavor, the disclosure of the foundations of ethnic mentality, formation of the conceptual sphere of the work and the author's aesthetics as a whole. The transformation of authentic forms and elements of ceremonial folklore and their reception in the author's words create culturological and ethnographic context of the research.
Key words: reception, ethno ceremonialism, traditional culture, reminiscence, ethnocultural space, author’s conceptuality.