Mifologizm v literature, mifopoetika berut nachalo v mirovoy literature proshlogo. Nachal'noy ere chelovecheskogo razuma prisushche mifologicheskoe soznanie, stavshee so vremenem osnovoy khudozhestvennogo myshleniya. V proizvedeniyakh khudozhestvennoy literatury obraznaya sistema i syuzhety byli sformirovany na osnove mifov, sygravshikh vazhnuyu rol'. Eto osnovanie rasprostranyaetsya na odin iz vedushchikh khudozhestvennykh metodov. V natsional'noy literature mificheskoe soznanie v khudozhestvennykh tselyakh v bol'shinstve svoem stanovitsya osnovoy opisaniya. V nauchnoy rabote glubokomu osmysleniyu podvergaetsya mifopoeticheskaya problema, kotoraya ranee spetsial'no ne izuchalas'. Eto issledovanie imeet bol'shoe znachenie sredi nauchnykh rabot, kotorye issleduyut svyazi mezhdu literaturoy i mifologiey v natsional'nom literaturovedenii.