How to live and moving epic hero?

The review stresses the importance of Sergey Yu. Neklyudov's both theoretical ideas and prasctical observations for comparative studies of epic and folklore. Neklyudov treats the concepts of space and time in folklore narration in a rather wide way, and his approach makes possible to explore all the most significant characteristics of epic plot and narrative. Time implies the notions of epic epoque and the construction of heroic biography, and space embraces all the particular loci and the development of epic hero within the generic framework of epic.